TY - JOUR
T1 - The enduring and vanishing American Indian
T2 - American Indian population growth and intermarriage in 1990
AU - Eschbach, Karl
N1 - Funding Information:
The research was supported in part by a training grant from the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development to the University of Wisconsin, Center for Demography and Ecology. The data were made available by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research and were collected by the US Bureau of the Census. I am indebted to Steven Andrews, Manley Begay, Carolyn Boyes-Watson, Stephen Cornell, Miriam Jorgensen, Stanley Lieber-son, Joseph Kalt, Meyer Kestnbaum, Matthew Snipp, Joane Nagel, Joel Podolny, Kahlil Supple and Mary Waters for comments on previous drafts. I am solely responsible for the analyses and interpretations in the article.
PY - 1995/1
Y1 - 1995/1
N2 - The American Indian and Alaskan Native population has grown rapidly since 1950 because of changes in the racial classification of persons with mixed Indian and non-Indian descent. These changes have challenged once common expectations that the Indian population was likely to shrink over time through assimilation. However, in regions of the United States where the recent growth of the Indian population has been particularly sharp most married Indians are married to non-Indians. Fertility rates of women who are part of intermarried couples are lower than fertility rates for Indian women in racially endogamous marriages. The majority of the children of intermarried Indians in high intermarriage regions are labelled with the race of the non-Indian parent. Intermarriage is likely to substantially reduce the long-run impact of changes in identification on the future growth of the Indian population. At the same time, in a few states the American Indian population remains ethnically homogenous and shows no signs of imminent amalgamation into the general American population.
AB - The American Indian and Alaskan Native population has grown rapidly since 1950 because of changes in the racial classification of persons with mixed Indian and non-Indian descent. These changes have challenged once common expectations that the Indian population was likely to shrink over time through assimilation. However, in regions of the United States where the recent growth of the Indian population has been particularly sharp most married Indians are married to non-Indians. Fertility rates of women who are part of intermarried couples are lower than fertility rates for Indian women in racially endogamous marriages. The majority of the children of intermarried Indians in high intermarriage regions are labelled with the race of the non-Indian parent. Intermarriage is likely to substantially reduce the long-run impact of changes in identification on the future growth of the Indian population. At the same time, in a few states the American Indian population remains ethnically homogenous and shows no signs of imminent amalgamation into the general American population.
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U2 - 10.1080/01419870.1995.9993855
DO - 10.1080/01419870.1995.9993855
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0028805588
VL - 18
SP - 89
EP - 108
JO - Ethnic and Racial Studies
JF - Ethnic and Racial Studies
SN - 0141-9870
IS - 1
ER -