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I found that ideas, symbolized verbally or nonverbally, are transmitted between and within generations through educational processes emphasizing historical consciousness.","The "Dawes Role," "Identity Card" and "Blood Quantum" were found to be legal and quasi-legal symbols of ascription identified historically as foci by which interracial relations in the community were ambiguously structured. Controversies surrounding the use of these symbols are legion. Even aside from such controversies, which promote ambiguity, other contemporary ethnic metaphors such as "Oreo," "Apple," "Seminole," "Maroon," "StateRaised," and "Native" establish an intesubjective set of perceived realities about the continuous interracial boundary shifts in America. The essence of the Seminole Freemen label is to capture the process of the group's becoming. This becoming is predicated on the idea and image of freedom.","Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-16T01:02:06Z (GMT). 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