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Urban voices : the Bay Area American Indian community / Community History Project, Intertribal Friendship House, Oakland, California ; editorial committee Susan Lobo, coordinating editor ... [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Intertribal Friendship House (Oakland, Calif.) Community History Project.
- Series:
- Sun tracks ; v. 50.
- Sun tracks : an American Indian literary series ; v. 50
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 136 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- California has always been America's promised land -- for American Indians as much as anyone. In the 1950s, Native people from all over the United States moved to the San Francisco Bay Area as part of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Relocation Program. Oakland was a mjaor destination of this program, and once there, Indian people arriving from rural and reservation areas had to adjust to urban living. They did it by creating a cooperative, multitribal community -- not a geographic community, but rather a network of people linked by shared experiences and understandings. The Intertribal Friendship House in Oakland became a sanctuary during times of upheaval in people's lives and the heart of a vibrant American Indian community. One of the oldest urban Indian organizations in the country, the House has served as a gathering place for newcomers as well as for the descendants of families who arrived half a century ago. This album of essays, photographs, stories, and art chronicles some of the people and events that have played -- and continue to play -- a role in the lives of Native families in the Bay Area Indian community over the past seventy years. Together, these perspectives weave a richly textured portrait that offers an extraordinary inside view of American Indian urban life.
- Contents:
- The beginnings
- Relocation
- Building community
- Times of chenge
- Creating a community for future generations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-128).
- ISBN:
- 0816513163
- OCLC:
- 49260750
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