Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Race, identity, and recognition : The imposition of law : the federal acknowledgment process and the legal de/construction of tribal identity / Angela A. Gonzales and Timothy Q. Evans
  • Racial science and federal recognition : Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South / Malinda Maynor Lowery
  • The recognition of NAGPRA : a human rights promise deferred / Joanne Barker
  • State recognition of American Indian Tribes : a survey of state-recognized tribes and state recognized processes / K. Alexa Koenig and Jonathan Stein
  • Part II. State and federal recognition in New England : State recognition and "termination" in nineteenth-century New England / Jean M. O'Brien
  • Altered state? : Indian policy narratives, federal recognition, and the "new" war on native rights in Connecticut / Amy E. Den Ouden
  • How you see us, why you don't : Connecticut's public policy to terminate Schaghticoke Indians / Ruth Garby Torres
  • The Nipmuc Nation, federal acknowledgment, and a case of mistaken identity / Rae Gould
  • Part III. Contemporary recognition controversies : A right delayed : the Brothertown Indian Nation's story of surviving the federal acknowledgment process / Kathleen A. Brown-Perez
  • From "Boston men" to the BIA : the unacknowledged Chinook Nation / John R. Robinson
  • Mapping erasure : the power of nominative cartography in the past and present of the Muwekma Ohlones of the San Francisco Bay Area / Les W. Field with Alan Leventhal and Rosemary Cambra
  • Precarious positions : native Hawaiians and U.S. federal recognition / J. Kēhaulani Kauanui
  • Afterword / David E. Wilkins.