Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword: ‘‘Not Recognized by the Tribe’’ ix
4. Preface: Eating out of the Same Pot? xv
5. Acknowledgments xix
6. Introduction: Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds 1
7. 1. A Harbor of Sense: An Interview with Joy Harjo 25
8. 2. An/Other Case of New England Underwriting: Negotiating Race and Property in Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge 31
9. 3. Race and Federal Recognition in Native New England 57
10. 4. Where Will the Nation Be at Home? Race, Nationalisms, and Emigration Movements in the Creek Nation 80
11. 5. In Their ‘‘Native Country’’: Freedpeople’s Understandings of Culture and Citizenship in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations 100
12. 6. ‘‘Blood and Money’’: The Case of Seminole Freedmen and Seminole Indians in Oklahoma 121
13. 7. ‘‘Playing Indian’’? The Selection of Radmilla Cody as Miss Navajo Nation, 1997–1998 145
14. 8. ‘‘Their Hair was Curly’’: Afro-Mexicans in Indian Villages, Central Mexico, 1700–1820 164
15. 9. Lone Wolf and Du Bois for a New Century: Intersections of Native American and African American Literatures 181
16. 10. Native Americans, African Americans, and the Space That Is America: Indian Presence in the Fiction of Toni Morrison 196
17. 11. Knowing All of My Names 218
18. 12. After the Death of the Last: Performance as History in Monique Mojica’s Princess Pocahontas and The Blue Spots 226
19. 13. Katimih o Sa Chata Kiyou (Why Am I Not Choctaw)? Race in the Lived Experiences of Two Black Choctaw Mixed-Bloods 260
20. 14. From Ocean to O-Shen: Reggae, Rap, and Hip Hop in Hawai‘i 273
21. 15. Heartbreak 309
22. Afterword 321
23. References 327
24. Contributors 345
25. Index 349