1. Diaspora
Mobility and instability;
a “condition of modernity” (Paul Gilroy in The Black Atlantic);
a methodological “practice,” which “can be articulated only in forms that are provisional, negotiated, [and]
asymmetrical” (Brent Hayes Edwards in The Practice of Diaspora);
includes: 1) Reason for, and conditions of, the dispersal, 2) Relationship to the homeland (generational), 3)
Relationship to the hostlands, [and] 4) Interrelationships within communities of the diaspora.” - Kim D.
Butler, “Defining Diaspora, Refining a Discourse,” Diaspora, Vol. 10 No. 2 (2001): 189-219; 195.
Future Research
22 “landless” tribes in twenty-two federally recognized tribes in California, Alaska, Arizona,
Washington, and Michigan.