Dismembered: Native Disenrollment and the Battle for Human Rights

by David E. Wilkins and Shelly Hulse Wilkins

Book Overview

While the number of federally recognized Native nations in the United States are increasing, the population figures for existing tribal nations are declining. This depopulation is not being perpetrated by the federal government, but by Native governments that are banishing, denying, or disenrolling Native citizens at an unprecedented rate. Since the 1990s, tribal belonging has become more of a privilege than a sacred right. Political and legal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295741589
• ISBN13: 9780295741581
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"