Reinterpreting a Native American Identity: Examining the Lumbee through the Peoplehood Model

Reinterpreting a Native American Identity discusses the ongoing and morphing politics
behind the federal government’s denial of full Lumbee tribal recognition. At the core of
the Lumbee struggle for federal recognition are issues of cultural authenticity, racism, misrecognition, and assimilation grounded in a longer history of colonialism. Beyond merely describing why denial has continually occurred, this booktakes an American Indian Studies approach through the use of the Peoplehood Model de...