Americanization on Native Terms: The Society of American Indians, Citizenship Debates, and Tropes of "Racial Difference"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cristina Stanciu
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 6, no. 1, 2019, pp. 111-148
Description
Discusses the way in which some members of the Society of American Indians (SAI) advocated for a model of “Americanization” of Indigenous people that allows for the “performance of both American and Native allegiances,” and enfranchised Indigenous peoples as full citizens.