College English Sep 2004

Shooting Our Last Arrow: Developing a Rhetoric of Identity for Unenrolled American Indians1

Resa Crane Bizzaro

Abstract

Tracing her own efforts to assert her Cherokee ancestry, the author considers what is at stake for the more than four million mixed-bloods in the United States and suggests that individual nations must find some way to acknowledge those who wish to claim their heritage. She argues that finding a way to accept unenrolled mixed-blood peoples will allow indigenous nations to accrue greater political and cultural power in this country.

Journal
College English
Published
2004-09-01
DOI
10.58680/ce20044059
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Topics
race and writing

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