Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line Ute Tracks is a tale of

Tracks is a tale of passion and deep unrest

Shalan Joudry

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other tribes

Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line Ute Tracks is a tale ofVirginias Racial Integrity Act of 1924 recodified the states long standing racial hierarchy as a more rigid Black white binary. Then, Virginia officials asserted that no Virginia Indians could be other than legally Black, given centuries of love and marriage across color lines. How indigenous peoples of Virginia resisted erasure and built their identities as Native Americans is the powerful story this book tells. Spanning a century of fraught history,