Indian cities : histories of indigenous urbanization / edited by Kent Blansett, Cathleen D. Cahill, and Andrew Needham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blansett, Kent, editor.

Cahill, Cathleen D., editor.

Needham, Andrew, 1971- editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban Indigenous peoples--North America.

Urban Indigenous peoples.

Indians of North America--Social conditions.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Ethnic identity.

Urbanization--North America--History.

Urbanization.

City and town life--North America--History.

City and town life.

Indians of North America--Urban residence.

History.

North America.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 332 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2022]

Summary:

"A collection of essays that explores the history of Indigenous peoples as city makers and city dwellers, showing how, from colonial times to the present day, Indigenous people have shaped and been shaped by urban spaces"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Remaking Urban Spaces in Early America

1. "Others of a More Ordinary Quality": Cherokee Commoners in Charlestown during the Winter of 1717 / Nathaniel Holly

2. Communicating Sovereignty in Balbancha: The Performance of Native American Diplomacy in Early New Orleans / Daniel H. Usner

pt. II Imperial Cities and Dispossession in the Nineteenth Century

3. From Manassas to Mankato: How the Civil War Bled into the Indian Wars / Ari Kelman

4. Electric Lights, Tourist Sights: Gendering Dispossession and Colonial Infrastructure at Niagara Falls / Mishuana R. Goeman

5. Native Washington: Indigenous Histories, a Federal Landscape, and the Making of the U.S. Capital / C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa

6. When the City Comes to the Indian: Yavapai-Apache Exodus and Return to Urban Indian Homelands, 1870s

1920s / Maurice Crandall

pt. III Building Community in Twentieth-Century Indian Cities

7. Mni Luzahan and "Our Beautiful City": Indigenous Resistance in the Black Hills up to 1937 / Elaine Marie Nelson

8. Indigenizing Minneapolis: Building American Indian Community Infrastructure in the Mid-Twentieth Century / Sasha Maria Suarez

9. There Is No Such Thing as an Urban Indian: Native American People Living in Dallas / Douglas K. Miller

10. Neeginan: The Struggle to Build an Indigenous "Enclave" in Postwar Winnipeg / David Hugill

pt. IV Indigenous Urban Futures in the Twenty-First Century

11. NoDAPL Encampments: Twenty-First-Century Indian City / Dana E. Powell

12. "Building the Perfect Human to Invade": Dikos Ntsaaigii-19 (COVID-19) from Border Towns to the Navajo Nation / Jennifer Denetdale.

Notes:

"This book is published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, and with the generous assistance of The McCasland Foundation, Duncan, Oklahoma."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Indian cities.

ISBN:

9780806176635

0806176636

OCLC:

1269419544