College English Sep 2004

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

Resa Crane Bizzaro

Abstract

blood American Indians/Alaskan Natives, while just over four million designate their racial identity as mixed-blood.2 In my home state of North Carolina, records indicate that fewer than 100,000 people are full-blood American Indians/Alaskan Natives, while over 130,000 people are mixed-bloods. Russell Thornton suggests that the substantial increase in the Native American population since the turn of the twentieth century is due to several factors, including increased life expectancies, higher fertility and birth rates, and decreased stigmatizing of people of mixed ancestry who admit such status. I am one of the mixed-bloods who comes from a background where people attempted to hide their origins (see Bizzaro). My family's effort to avoid being jailed for evading the evacuation of the Cherokee led them to hide in the mountains of Georgia and deny their heritage in an effort to blend into the dominant culture.

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College English
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2004-09-01
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10.2307/4140725
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  1. Kennedy et al. (2005)
    Symposium: Whiteness Studies
    Rhetoric Review

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