![]() ![]() A lot of people think that Native peoples must have dark hair, dark skin, and high cheekbones. What they looked like then, and what they look like now, doesn't matter. Those agreements are diplomatic negotiations that take United States, and, later agreements made between the United States and Made between early European nations who came to what we now call the Sovereign nations, a distinction based on treaty and trust agreements The political dimension she refers to is our status as Negative effect because those categories obliterate our politicalĭifference. Placing us within a multicultural or ethnic studies category has a They are known and documented as citizens Not been required to deny their previous national citizenship in order Since 1924, they have possessedĭual citizenship, tribal and U.S., and are the only population that has Landlords, with very special political and cultural status in the realm "minority" populations, neither immigrant nor tourist, nor "people ofĬolor." They are the indigenous peoples of this continent. Populations in America are not "ethnic" populations they are not Lynn, a member of the Crow Creek Sioux tribe and founding editor of Wicazo Sa (a leading journal in American Indian Studies), "people of color." Cook-Lynn writes: "people of color." American Indians are not, to quote Elizabeth Cook Phrase used to describe minority or underrepresented populations is That status is that we are sovereign tribal nations. Status that marks us as distinct from minority or underrepresented ![]() Very few people know that American Indians in the United States have a Government and the state governments, but very few know about tribal governments. Our membership or citizenship in our respective nations is what matters. I think it important that people know that what we look like, physically, is not important. Readers learn about and understand the 500+ federally recognized Native Through AICL, I share a lot of information that I think will help Edited on Friday, 12-2-12, to insert information about physical appearance and why it does not matter, and to change the title of this page from 'We are not "people of color" to "Are we 'people of color?' ![]()
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