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Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz

October 24 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Magic City Books is proud to welcome Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz for a free, in-store event to celebrate the release of her new book, The Indian Card: Who Gets to be Native in America, on Thursday October 24 at 7:00 pm.

Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and she spent seven years working in the Obama Administration on issues of homelessness and Native policy. In her debut book, The Indian Card, Schuettpelz pieces together the history of blood quantum and tribal rolls and federal government intrusion on Native identity-making while reckoning with her own identity–the story of her enrollment and the enrollment of her children–she investigates the cultural, racial, and political dynamics of today’s Tribal identity policing.

The Indian Card will be published by Flatiron Books on October 15, 2024 and will be for sale at Magic City Books. If you are unable to attend the event and would like a signed copy, you can order online at: https://magiccitybooks.square.site/product/the-indian-card/2906.

About The Indian Card

A groundbreaking and deeply personal exploration of Tribal enrollment, and what it means to be Native American in the United States

To be Native American is to live in a world of contradictions. At the same time that the number of people in the US who claim Native identity has exploded–increasing 85 percent in just ten years–the number of people formally enrolled in Tribes has not. While the federal government recognizes Tribal sovereignty, being a member of a Tribe requires navigating blood quantum laws and rolls that the federal government created with the intention of wiping out Native people altogether. Over two million Native people are tribally enrolled, yet there are Native people who will never be. Native people who, for a variety of reasons ranging from displacement to disconnection, cannot be card-carrying members of their Tribe.

In The Indian Card, Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz grapples with these contradictions. Through in-depth interviews, she shares the stories of people caught in the mire of identity-formation, trying to define themselves outside of bureaucratic processes. With archival research, she pieces together the history of blood quantum and tribal rolls and federal government intrusion on Native identity-making. Reckoning with her own identity–the story of her enrollment and the enrollment of her children–she investigates the cultural, racial, and political dynamics of today’s Tribal identity policing. With this intimate perspective of the ongoing fight for Native sovereignty, The Indian Card sheds light on what it looks like to find a deeper sense of belonging.

Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. She spent seven years working in the Obama Administration on issues of homelessness and Native policy. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. The Indian Card is her first book.

Details

Date:
October 24
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Organizer

Magic City Books

Venue

Magic City Books
221 E. Archer St.
Tulsa, OK 74103 United States
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