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- Title
An Anishinaabe Tribalography: Investigating and Interweaving Conceptions of Identity during the 1910s on the White Earth Reservation.
- Authors
Doerfler, Jill
- Abstract
This article focuses on the use of genealogy by the U.S. government to disenfranchise Anishinaabeg Indians considered to be mixed-blood of property promised by the U.S. government. It states that the United States Congress passed the General Allotment Act, in 1887, which made members of Native American tribes eligible for land allotments based on the tribes' own independent determination of membership. It comments on the attempts by the U.S. government to consolidate the Anishinaabeg on two reservations. It mentions that attorney Ransom Powell was appointed to head an investigation to determine which members of the Anishinaabeg were mixed-blood and uses a tribalography methodology to show confusion between Powell's determination of identity and that of the Anishinaabeg Indians.
- Subjects
RED Lake Indian Reservation (Minn.); MINNESOTA; UNITED States; GENERAL Allotment Act, 1887 (U.S.); OJIBWA (North American people); MULTIRACIAL people; IDENTITY (Philosophical concept); NATIVE Americans; POWELL, Ransom; WHITE Earth Indian Reservation (Minn.)
- Publication
American Indian Quarterly, 2009, Vol 33, Issue 3, p295
- ISSN
0095-182X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/aiq.0.0052