The sociology of American Indians incorporates perspectives from across the social sciences.
Recently, sociologists have taken a greater interest in American Indians, perhaps because …

▪ Abstract In 1977, the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) established an official
classification standard for the measurement of race in the American population. In so doing…

Rural sociologists have an opportunity to make a significant contribution to the race and
ethnic relations literature by focusing on the unique social position of minority communities in …

… In American Indians: The First of This Land, C. Matthew Snipp provides an unrivaled …
high-quality data for these groups, Snipp details the composition and characteristics of native Indian …

The country’s capacity to monitor trends in social mobility has languished since the last
major survey on US social mobility was fielded in 1973. It is accordingly difficult to evaluate …

Indigenous people have long struggled to retain their rights as autonomous self-governing
people. These struggles have sometimes involved litigation, sometimes political manoeuvring …

We use data from the 1970, 1980, and 1990 census public-use files to assess the impact of
newly identified Indians on the educational attainment of American Indians who were at least …

… • [C. Matthew Snipp, Ph.D., is assistant professor of sociology, University of Maryland, College
Park, MD 20742.] An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 1984 meeting ofthe …

In this article, we argue that there is an important, but as yet unidentified, process involved
in the maintenance and reconstruction of ethnic identity. We call this process ‘ethnic …

The data for race and ethnicity published from the 1980 Census are based on racial and
ethnic self-identification of respondents. Selfidentification of race and ethnicity is problematic …