Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Us at War (Updated for for 2003) by June English
In the last few decades, as indigenous peoples have increasingly sought out and sometimes demanded sovereignty on a variety of fronts, their relationships with encompassing nation-states have become ever more complicated and troubled. The varying ways that today's nation-states attempt to manage-and often render invisible-contemporary indigenous peoples is the subject of this global comparative study. Beginning with his own work along the northwest coast of North America and drawing on contemporary examples from South America, Asia, Africa, and Europe, Bruce Granville Miller examines how national governments classify, govern, and control the indigenous populations within their boundaries through administrative, judicial, and economic means. One telling consequence of such regulation strategies is that certain indigenous peoples become unrecognized-their ethnic identities and heritages fail to find legal register and thus empowerment within the very state organizations that manage other aspects of their lives. In the United States alone reside two hundred thousand unrecognized indigenous individuals, some members of indigenous communities that were dropped from the roster of tribes and others whose ancestors were overlooked. Miller also considers some important differences between the fluid nature of ethnic identity for some indigenous peoples and the more rigid notion of identity encoded in many state regulations. Invisible Indigenes reveals a recurring issue integral to the formation and maintenance of nation-states today and highlights a common challenge facing indigenous peoples around the globe in the twenty-first century. Bruce Granville Miller is a professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of The Problem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World (Nebraska 2001).
English, June: - June English, an Episopalian, has written several books for children and young adults, including Mission Earth and the Encyclopedia of the United States at War. Much of her career has focused on writing profiles of children and adolescents in areas of political upheaval in the north of Ireland, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union. She lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780439592291 |
| ISBN 10 | 0439592291 |
| Title | Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Us at War (Updated for for 2003) |
| Author | June English |
| Series | Core Reference Ser |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Scholastic Reference |
| Year published | 2003-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
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