Jessica Cattelino

About

Jessica Cattelino is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA, specializing in sovereignty and citizenship, indigenous economic development, settler colonialism, environment and the cultural politics of nature, gender, American Indian gaming, and tribal nation environmental resource management. Her research focuses on citizenship and sovereignty, indigeneity and settler colonialism, the anthropology of economy and value, environment and water, gender, and American public culture, with particular attention to American Indian gaming. She holds a B.A. from Cornell University, and both her M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University. Her academic work explores the intersections of indigenous sovereignty, economic practices, environmental issues, and cultural politics, contributing to a deeper understanding of Native American experiences and issues.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Social Science
• Law
• Gender studies
• Ecology
• Business
• Environmental ethics
• Anthropology

Selected publications

• High stakes: Florida Seminole gaming and sovereignty

  Choice Reviews Online · 2009-04-01 · 263 citations

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  In 1979, Florida Seminoles opened the first tribally operated high-stakes bingo hall in North America. At the time, their annual budget stood at less than $2 million. By 2006, net income from gaming had surpassed $600 million. This dramatic shift from poverty to relative economic security has created tangible benefits for tribal citizens, including employment, universal health insurance, and social services. Renewed political self-governance and economic strength have reversed decades of U.S. se…

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• THE DOUBLE BIND OF AMERICAN INDIAN NEED-BASED SOVEREIGNTY

  Cultural Anthropology · 2010-04-15 · 177 citations

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  This essay examines a double bind that faces indigenous peoples in the Anglophone settler states, the double bind of need-based sovereignty. This double bind works as follows: indigenous sovereigns, such as American Indian tribal nations, require economic resources to exercise sovereignty, and their revenues often derive from their governmental rights; however, once they exercise economic power, the legitimacy of indigenous sovereignty and citizenship is challenged within settler society. Throug…

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• Anthropologies of the United States

  Annual Review of Anthropology · 2010-09-23 · 76 citations

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  This article reviews recent research in sociocultural anthropology that has been conducted in and about the United States. I show that anthropologists of the United States have been concerned to locate the anthropological field in three ways: spatial investigations of region, community, and territory; epistemological and methodological projects of cultural critique and defamiliarization; and reconsideration of the place of Native North America in the anthropology of the United States. Emergent i…

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• Recognition Odysseys: Indigeneity, Race, and Federal Tribal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities

  Ethnohistory · 2012-07-01 · 50 citations

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  Book Review| July 01 2012 Recognition Odysseys: Indigeneity, Race, and Federal Tribal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities Recognition Odysseys: Indigeneity, Race, and Federal Tribal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities. By Klopotek, Brian. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. xii + 391 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper.) Jessica R. Cattelino Jessica R. Cattelino Search for other works by this autho…

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• Fungibility: Florida Seminole Casino Dividends and the Fiscal Politics of Indigeneity

  American Anthropologist · 2009-05-21 · 31 citations

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  ABSTRACT In this article, I examine Florida Seminoles’ governmental distributions of tribal‐gaming revenues that take the form of per capita dividends. Dividends reveal the political and cultural stakes of money's fungibility—its ability to substitute for itself. From tribal policy debates over children's dividends to the legitimization of political leadership through monetary redistribution, Seminoles selectively exploit the fungibility of money to break or make ties with one another and with n…

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Frequent coauthors

• Cody Osborne

  Minnesota Historical Society

  9 shared

• J. P. Dudley

  Weisman Art Museum

  9 shared

• Angie Hume

  Minnesota Historical Society

  9 shared

• Orisanmi Burton

  Minnesota Historical Society

  9 shared

• Josh Freker

  Minnesota Historical Society

  9 shared

• Benjamin Kossak

  Minnesota Historical Society

  9 shared

• Mallory Lovice

  Minnesota Historical Society

  9 shared

• Matt Delmont

  University of California, Los Angeles

  9 shared

Labs

• American Indian StudiesPI

Education

• Ph.D., American Indian Studies

  University of California, Los Angeles

  2007

• M.A., American Indian Studies

  University of California, Los Angeles

  2002

• B.A., American Indian Studies

  University of California, Los Angeles

  1999

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