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An Analysis of Colonial, State, and Federal ‘Definitions of Indian’.

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Record Number: 
666
Citation: 

Wilkins, David Eugene.  “An Analysis of Colonial, State, and Federal ‘Definitions of Indian’.”  Thesis.  U of Arizona, 1982.

Annotation: 

Useful background information on state definitions of “free persons of color”; mixed-blood Indians’ relations with the federal government; the concept of measuring degree of Indian blood; and the Indian Reorganization Act.  Brief mention,  pp. 117-18, of Robeson County Indians’ attempt at recognition as Siouans and Carl Seltzer’s “highly questionable” analysis of physical characteristics.

First Appeared in 1994 Book?: 
no
Category Tags: 
Tribal name and identity
Publication Type: 
Thesis (masters)
Access to Full Text: 

Indian Education Resource Center, Pembroke, NC.

Additional Subjects: 
Blood quantum
Carl C. Seltzer
Siouan Movement--Siouan Theory of Tribal Origin
Wheeler-Howard Indian Reorganization Act