Date of Award
Fall 1-5-2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Anthropology
First Advisor
Leo Coleman
Second Advisor
Jacqueline N. Brown
Academic Program Adviser
Yukiko Koga
Abstract
This thesis discusses the imposition of a “liminal” identity among non-federally recognized American Indian tribes pursuing federal recognition through the Federal Acknowledgment Process. By requiring a tribe to simultaneously appear as both intelligible/similar to and distinctive/different from American society, the “liminal” identity fails to be maintained, barring a tribe’s recognition.
Recommended Citation
Drake, Christopher M., "From Invisibility to Liminality: The Imposition of Identity among Non-Federally Recognized Tribes within the Federal Acknowledgment Process" (2018). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/234