Forgotten Tribes: Unrecognized Indians and the Federal Acknowledgment Process - Softcover

Miller, Mark Edwin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803283210 ISBN 13: 9780803283213

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 2006

Synopsis

The Federal Acknowledgment Process (FAP) is one of the most important and contentious issues facing Native Americans today. A complicated system of criteria and procedures, the FAP is utilized by federal officials to determine whether a Native community qualifies for federal recognition by the United States government. In Forgotten Tribes, Mark Edwin Miller offers a balanced and detailed look at the origins, procedures, and assumptions governing the FAP. His work examines the FAP through the prism of four previously unrecognized tribal communities and their battles to gain indigenous rights under federal law.

Based on a wealth of interviews and original research, Forgotten Tribes features the first in-depth history and overview of the FAP and sheds light on this controversial Native identification policy involving state power over Native peoples and tribal sovereignty.

About this title

About the Author

Mark Edwin Miller is an assistant professor of history at Southern Utah University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803283210
• ISBN 13: 9780803283213
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 356