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Indigenous Americas Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- What's Done to the People Is Done to the Land -- Part I: Family Narrations of Privatization -- patterns, parcels, and place nitspu tiłhin ktitʸutitʸu -- Narrated Nationhood and Imagined Belonging: Fanciful Family Stories and Kinship Legacies of Allotment -- Making Mahnomen Home: The Dawes Act and Ojibwe Mobility in Grandma's Stories -- Returning Fractionated Allotments Back to the Tribes-One Family's Story -- Allotment Speculations: The Emergence of Land Memory -- Interlude: Kinscape -- Part II: Racial and Gender Taxonomies -- "Mixed-Bloods" and Métis in U.S. Allotment and Canadian Enfranchisement Policies -- Extinguishing the Dead: Colonial Anxieties and Métis Scrip at the Fringe of Focus -- A Dakota Family Story of Race, Land, and Dispossession before the Dawes Act -- You can hear locusts in the heat of the summer -- Interlude: Amikode -- Part III: Privatization as State Violence -- Navigating Guåhan's Treacherous Roads through CHamoru Feminist Pathways -- Settler Colonial Purchase: Privatizing Hawaiian Land -- The Enduring Confiscation of Indigenous Allotments in the National Interest: Pōkaewhenua 1961-1969 -- The Privatization of American Indian Resources from Allotment to the Present -- The Incorporation of Life and Land: The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act -- Interlude: Long Live Deatnu and the Grand Allotment -- Part IV: Resistance and Resurgence -- Enacting the Rights and Governance of North Karelian ICCAs and Skolt Sámi -- "Our Divine Right to Land": The Struggle against Privatization of Nahua Communal Lands -- The Sakhina Struggle in Late Ottoman and British-Ruled Palestine, 1876-1948 -- Petitioning Allotment: Collectivist Stories of Indigenous Solidarity.

"Collection of essays about the legacy of allotment in North America and some other countries"--

This engaging collection surveys and clarifies the complex issue of federal and state recognition for Native American tribal nations in the United States. Den Ouden and O'Brien gather focused and teachable essays on key topics, debates, and case studies. Written by leading scholars in the field, including historians, anthropologists, legal scholars, and political scientists, the essays cover the history of recognition, focus on recent legal and cultural processes, and examine contemporary recognition struggles nationwide.--