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Unpapered

Writers Consider Native American Identity and Cultural Belonging

by Diane Glancy
Linda Rodriguez
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Unpapered is a collection of personal narratives by Indigenous writers exploring the meaning and limits of Native American identity beyond its legal margins. Native heritage is neither simple nor always clearly documented, and citizenship is a legal and political matter of sovereign nations determined by such criteria as blood quantum, tribal rolls, or community involvement. Those who claim a Native cultural identity often have family stories of tenuous ties dating back several generations. Given that tribal enrollment was part of a string of government programs and agreements calculated to quantify and dismiss Native populations, many writers who identify culturally and are recognized as Native Americans do not hold tribal citizenship.
With essays by Trevino Brings Plenty, Deborah Miranda, Steve Russell, and Kimberly Wieser, among others, Unpapered charts how current exclusionary tactics began as a response to "pretendians"—non-indigenous people assuming a Native identity for job benefits—and have expanded to an intense patrolling of identity that divides Native communities and has resulted in attacks on peoples' professional, spiritual, emotional, and physical states. An essential addition to Native discourse, Unpapered shows how social and political ideologies have created barriers for Native people truthfully claiming identities while simultaneously upholding stereotypes.

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    May 1, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9781496236388

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    • English

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      April 28, 2023
      In this eye-opening collection of essays, prior collaborators Glancy and Rodriguez (The World Is One Place: Native American Poets Visit the Middle East, 2017) highlight the rich, disparate, occasionally contradictory definitions of Native identity and tribal affiliation in the United States. Through poetry, academic essays, and creative nonfiction, 18 authors share their ""oralities of indeterminacy,"" origin stories marked by the ""turbulence, skirmish, disagreement, exclusion, and expulsion"" that followed the European invasion of the continent. In ""On Being Chamorro and Belonging to Guam,"" poet Craig Santos Perez describes the complicated realities of growing up in the Pacific U.S. territory and the saving outlet of lyric verse: ""Poetry became my sovereign tongue."" In ""A Salmon-Fishing Story,"" Koniag descendant Abigail Chabitnoy blends historical and familial accounts to capture the sharp complexity when questions of genealogy are disguised as a compliment: "You have such a lovely complexion . . . Do you have Native blood?" The freighted question of blood quantum haunts the collection, as do issues of intermarriage and itinerancy, and of family members who disenroll from their tribes or become disenfranchised. The multiplicity of perspectives on such sensitive matters provides nuanced, powerful looks at the past and present of Native identity, while propelling these conversations into the future.

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