Being a “real Indian” is not something one can simply be. Rather, it is something that one becomes in and through the doing of it, that is, in carrying out the actual performance itself. Though one must have certain kinship ties to get in the “game,” beyond this entry criterion, there is no being (once and for all) a “real Indian,” rather there is only doing being-or-becoming-a-“real-Indian.” If one does not continue to “practice” being a “real Indian,” one ceases to be one