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| Dayna Barrios Master's Thesis on Tribal Disenrollment |
Native Americans have endured many hardships throughout history. In modern times, tribal disenrollment is becoming an epidemic for many Native communities. Disenrollment is a non-traditional concept where an individual, or family, is stripped of their tribal citizenship. They are no longer able to participate in tribal affairs, they lose access to healthcare, cultural and financial resources, and the effects are detrimental to an individual’s Native identity and feelings of belonging.
This thesis analyzes the causes and consequences of disenrollment. I interviewed seven disenrolled members from three Native Nations in California to understand how and why they were disenrolled, along with how being disenrolled has affected them and their families. Structural violence, symbolic power, and symbolic violence all play a part in disenrollment and it is a violation of a person’s civil and human rights. Based on my findings, I have concluded that disenrollment is a form of inequality that many Native people are experiencing. I have found that the effects of disenrollment range from the fracturing of an individual’s identity, PTSD and other forms of mental trauma, along with experiencing poverty and a lack of resources.
Include are interviews with Professors, Tribal Chairman and many who have been disenrolled.
Read the full thesis Citizenship and Inequality...
9 comments:
Brilliant, well-constructed analysis. Highly recommend!
#TRUTH
Thank you Dayna for all of your hard work, this is a wonderful thesis and it tells truth.
Thank you all for the kind comments. This wouldn't have been possible without the help from the Pechanga Blog and others. Let's spread the word and create change.
Very good piece of work, Congratulations on you accomplishment.
This sort of article is fascinating and enjoyable to peruse. I cherish perusing and I am continually hunting down useful data like this.
I just passed this into a colleague who was doing a little research on that. And he actually bought me lunch because I found it for him smile So let me rephrase that.
The problem with disenrollment is,loss of numbers within a community. As well as the tribe. Maybe it wouldn't happen if people knew about the threats to this continent. It wasn't just the Spanish Catholic Mission System. Having designs on this part of the world didn't END with them. Any self-contained country with it's own water and good farmland is a potential target. Ukraine is the current example of that. No one should be banned from a tribe, unless they did something truly heinous!
The story challenges ideas of citizenship and reveals struggle, rights, and belonging. Hence, learning useful ideas from the MBA essay writers UK for better writing projects and fulfilling multiple writing projects.
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