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A 4 page consideration of the question of “Who is a Native American?”. Using the book by Betty Reid, Ben Winton, and Gwendolen Gates, the author of this paper emphasizes the importance of land, language, sovereignty, and lineage in defining who is and who is not Native American. No additional sources are listed.
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charged with administrating all things "Indian", admits that "no single federal or tribal criterion establishes a persons identity as an Indian" (5). Reid, Winton, and Gates (5) clarify that
the answer to the question of who is Indian "runs deeper than federal, legal, and even tribal description", that it must take into considerations such things as life experience, language,
story telling, and even land. Land, in fact, is one of the primary determinants of Indianness as it has been defined throughout the history of our relatively young nation.
The Native Americans were here long before the so-called discovery of this continent by Europeans. Europeans even reluctantly acknowledged that fact on occasion when dealing with Native American
issues on a legal basis. This acknowledgement has survived even through the establishment of the United States in the concept of sovereignty, one of the most vital legal concepts
that come into play when answering the question "Who is Indian?". Numerous problems have faced Native Americans since their first contact with the
non-Natives that invaded their lands. Most of these problems revolved around European expectations and, indeed, demands. With the formation of the United States, the problems facing Native Americans
remained essentially be the same but instead of dealing with a European based government or governments, Native Americans had to deal with an ever-present U.S. government. This created even
more problems because non-Native mainstream U.S. culture was tremendously different from Native American culture. The obvious result was cultural friction. Another result was the tremendous loss of land and
the deterioration of Native American culture. This coupled with Native American exposure to different foods, alcohol, and disease almost resulted in the complete extermination of Native America.
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