During Native American Heritage Month, our stories are a good time to reflect on who we are and how far we've come...
For Native people, our very existence is an act of resilience. We descend from ancestors who endured policies designed to erase us — removal, forced assimilation, boarding schools and termination. Yet we’re still here. Our languages are being spoken again, our ceremonies practiced openly, and our children are growing up learning that being Native is a strength, not a burden. - Levi Rickert
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The number of people in the United States who claim Native identity has exploded — increasing 85% in 10 years — though the number of people formally enrolled in Native American tribes has not. Carrie Lowry-Schuettpelz weaves together the history of Native identity along with sharing her own perspective and those of other Indigenous people in her book, The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America.
Lowry-Schuettpelz was born and raised in Cedar Rapids, but is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. She discusses growing up in Iowa and identifying as a Native American. Also, how her work and her book led her to form the Native Policy Lab at the University of Iowa School of Planning and Public Affairs.
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