The phrase "native identity" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a person's connection to their ancestral homeland, or cultural heritage and traditions. For example, "The importance of preserving native identity is a priority for many Indigenous communities."
Besides being descended from and related by blood to one of the more than 566 tribal nations recognized by the US government, Natives today agree that blood quantum is not the sole determinate of Native identity: kinship is key, because no true Native is an island.
Others become Pretendians because they romanticize Native identity.
Native identity is the birthright of its bearers and no one else.
Mutual respect and an awareness of the privilege whiteness wields could help put an end to this epidemic of cultural tourism and the exploitation of Native identity.
"His opinions came at a time when native Hawaiians were beginning what is called 'the Renaissance' -- the rebirth of pride in native identity, language and culture," the dean of the law school, Avi Soifer, said.
If you've ever worn a feathered headdress, clad yourself in head-to-toe Navajo prints or claimed without evidence that one of your great-great-great grandparents had some Native blood as a way to derail an argument about your white privilege, you're the kind of person we Native Americans shame as seeking to co-opt Native identity.
In Warren's telling, her mother's Native American identity functioned the way black identity often has, throughout American history: as a genealogical stain, generating social stigma.
There's a certain nuance of Native Canadian identity, but I'm not necessarily interested in exploring my identity as an individual.
The institution of slavery usually tried to deny its victims their native cultural identity.
And it certainly isn't the first high-profile appropriation of Native American identity, which has furnished brand names for automobiles, clothes, shoes, and, most flagrantly, sports teams.
The popular perception of Native American identity passed to Wild West shows (in a grainy film clip at the Met, we glimpse Buffalo Bill and galloping braves) and, of course, the movies, which appropriately are not addressed in the show, since they were solely about the attitudes of non-Indian audiences.
