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American Indians and the urban experience / edited by Susan Lobo & Kurt Peters.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Contemporary Native American communities ; v. 5.
- Contemporary Native American communities ; v. 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban Indigenous peoples--North America.
- Urban Indigenous peoples.
- Indians of North America--Social conditions.
- Indians of North America.
- Rural-urban migration--United States.
- Rural-urban migration.
- United States.
- City and town life--United States.
- City and town life.
- Urbanization--United States.
- Urbanization.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Walnut Creek, Calif. : Altimira Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- Modern American Indian life is urban, rural, and everything in-between. Lobo and Peters have compiled an unprecedented collection of innovative scholarship, stunning art, poetry, and prose that documents American Indian experiences of urban life. A pervasive rural/urban dichotomy still shapes the popular and scholarly perceptions of Native Americans, but this is a false expression of a complex and constantly changing reality. When viewed from Native perspectives, concepts of urbanity and approaches to American Indian studies are necessarily transformed. Courses in Native American studies, ethnic studies, anthropology, and urban studies must be in step with contemporary Indian realities, and American Indians and the Urban Experience will be an absolutely essential text for instructors. This accessible combination of path-breaking scholarship and visual and literary arts -- from poetry and photography to rap and graffiti -- will be enjoyed by students, scholars, and a general audience.
- Contents:
- The Path to the Milky Way Leads through Los Angeles / Joy Harjo xvii
- Part I Overview of Urbanism
- Chapter 1 The Urban Tradition among Native Americans / Jack D. Forbes 5
- Two Worlds / Dugan Aguilar 27
- Chapter 2 Telling the Indian Urban: Representations in American Indian Fiction / Carol Miller 29
- Coyote as a Simple Man / L. Frank Manriquez 47
- Chapter 3 Yaqui Cultural and Linguistic Evolution through a History of Urbanization / Octaviana V. Trujillo 49
- Part II Structuring and Dynamics of Urban Communities
- Chapter 4 Is Urban a Person or a Place?: Characteristics of Urban Indian Country / Susan Lobo 73
- Chapter 5 Retribalization in Urban Indian Communities / Terry Straus, Debra Valentino 85
- Chapter 6 And the Drumbeat Still Goes On ... Urban Indian Institutional Survival into the New Millennium / Joan Weibel-Orlando 95
- Cities / Carter Revard/Nompewathe 115
- Chapter 7 Continuing Identity: Laguna Pueblo Railroaders in Richmond, California / Kurt M. Peters 117
- Chapter 8 Feminists or Reformers? American Indian Women and Community in Phoenix, 1965-1980 / Paivi Hoikkala 127
- Metropolitan Indian Series #1 / Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie 147
- Chapter 9 The Cid / Julian Lang 149
- Derek and Peter Discuss the Pro's and Con's of City Life / L. Frank Manriquez 153
- Chapter 10 An Urban Platform for Advocating Justice: Protecting the Menominee Forest / David R. M. Beck 155
- Part III Individuals and Families in Urban Contexts
- Ruby Roast / Esther Belin 167
- Chapter 11 Urban (Trans)Formations: Changes in the Meaning and Use of American Indian Identity / Angela A. Gonzales 169
- Ironworker I & Ironworker II / Pena Bonita 187
- Chapter 12 "This Hole in Our Heart": The Urban-Raised Generation and the Legacy of Silence / Deborah Davis Jackson 189
- Living Room of an Indian Family in the San Francisco Bay Area: Mantelpiece & Girl Watching T.V. / John Collier Jr. 207
- Quiet Desperation / Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Jimmy Curtiss 209
- Chapter 13 Weaving Andean Networks in Unstable Labor Markets / Alex Julca 211
- A Poem Maybe for Tina Deschenie / Michael Thompson 227
- Kokopeli Gigging in the City / Larry Rodriguez Sr. 229
- Chapter 14 Red Wit in the City: Urban Indian Comedy / Darby Li Po Price 231
- Indian Pride / Mike Rodriguez 247
- Chapter 15 Healing through Grief: Urban Indians Reimagining Culture and Community / Renya Ramirez 249
- Red White & Blue / Chris Lamarr/WithOut Rezervation (WOR) 265
- Youngest Trapper on 7th Street / Pena Bonita 267
- My Uncle / Taweah Garcia 269
- Chapter 16 Downtown Oklahoma City
- 1952 / Victoria Bomberry 271
- Letter Home / Edgar Jackson/Anawrok 275
- Chapter 17 Rejection and Belonging in Addition and Recovery: Four Urban Indian Men in Milwaukee / Christine T. Lowery 277
- Excerpt from a Work in Progress / Parris Butler 291
- Mattie Goes Traveling / Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie 293.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0742502740
- 0742502759
- OCLC:
- 44067051
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