Those Who Belong: Identity, Family, Blood, and Citizenship Among the White Earth Anishinaabeg

by Jill Doerfler

Despite the central role blood quantum played in political formations of American Indian identity in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there are few studies that explore how tribal nations have contended with this transformation of tribal citizenship. Those Who Belong explores how White Earth Anishinaabeg understood identity and blood quantum in the early twentieth century, how it was employed and manipulated by the U.S. government,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611861691
• ISBN13: 9781611861693
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"