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100 1 $aWhitlock, Rosemary.
245 14 $aThe Monacan Indian Nation of Virginia :$bthe drums of life /$cRosemary Clark Whitlock ; with a foreword by J. Anthony Paredes and an introduction by Thomas J. Blumer.
260 $aTuscaloosa :$bUniversity of Alabama Press,$cc2008.
300 $axix, 221 p. :$bill., map ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aContemporary American Indian studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [213]) and index.
505 00 $tVirginia Monacan Indians --$tChief Kenneth Branham --$tGeorge Branham Whitewolf --$tDanny Gear --$tLucian Branham : the Patriarch in 1997 --$tWilliam Sandidge, clerk of court --$tDena Branham --$tJo Ann Staubitz --$tLee Branham --$tAnnie Johns Branham --$tPhyllis Branham Hicks --$tThelma Louise Branham-Branham --$tEugene Branham --$tHerbert Hicks --$tKarenne Wood and Diane Shields --$tSharon Bryant --$tBrenda Branham Garrison --$tHattie Belle Branham Hamilton --$tBertie Duff Branham --$tCecil Hamilton Terry --$tElla Branham Mays --$tBetty Hamilton Branham --$tLacie Johns Branham --$tCammie Branham Johns --$tWilliam Carson Branham --$tHeather And Holly Branham --$tThe minister --$tRosemary Clark Whitlock.
520 8 $aAnnotation.$bLike members of some other native tribes, the Monacans have a long history of struggles for equality in jobs, health care, and education and have suffered cultural, political, and social abuse at the hands of authority figures appointed to serve them. The critical difference for the Monacans was the actions of segregationist Dr. Walter A. Plecker, Director of the Bureau of Vital Statistics from 1912 to 1946. A strong proponent and enforcer of Virginia's Racial Integrity Law of 1924 that prohibited marriage between races, Plecker's interpretation of that law convinced him that there were only two races, white and colored. Anyone not bearing physically white genetic characteristics was "colored" and that included Indians. He would not let Indians get married in Virginia unless they applied as white or colored, he forced the local teachers to falsify the students' race on the official school rolls, and he threatened court clerks and census takers with prosecution if they used the term "Indian" on any official form. He personally changed government records when his directives were not followed and even coerced postpartum Indian mothers to list their newborns as white or colored or they could not take their infants home from the hospital. Eventually the federal government intervened, directing the Virginia state officials to begin the tedious process of correcting official records. Yet the legacy of Plecker's attempted cultural genocide remains. Through interviews with 26 Monacans, Whitlock provides first-person accounts of what happened to the Monacan families and how their very existence as Indians was threatened. Book jacket.
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651 0 $aAmherst County (Va.)$xEthnic relations.
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aWhitlock, Rosemary.$tMonacan Indian Nation of Virginia.$dTuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2008$w(OCoLC)756586843
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