Reimagining Indian Country : Native American Migration and Identity in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles /

For decades, most American Indians have lived in cities, not on reservations or in rural areas. Still, scholars, policymakers, and popular culture often regard Indians first as reservation peoples, living apart from non-Native Americans. In this book, Nicolas Rosenthal reorients our understanding of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rosenthal, Nicolas G., 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Rural-urban migration.
Indians of North America > Social conditions.
Indians of North America > Migrations.
Urban Indians.
HISTORY > Native American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Exode rural > Californie > Los Angeles.
Rural-urban migration > California > Los Angeles.
Indians of North America > California > Los Angeles > Social conditions.
Urban Indians > North America.
Indians of North America > California > Los Angeles > Migrations.
California > Los Angeles.
North America.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Settling into the city: American Indian migration and urbanization, 1900-1945
  • Representing Indians: American Indian performance and activism in urban American
  • From Americanization to self-determination: the Federal Urban Relocation Program
  • Postindustrial urban Indians: Life and work in the postwar city
  • Being Indian in the city: American Indian urban organizations
  • Grassroots Indian activism: the Red Power Movement in urban areas
  • Indian country, reimagined: cities, towns, and Indian Reservations into the twenty-first century.

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