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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blansett, Kent, edito.

Cahill, Cathleen D., edito.

Needham, Andrew, 1971- edito.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban Indians--North Americ.

Indians of North America--Social condition.

Indians of North America--Ethnic identit.

Urbanization--North America--Histor.

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

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 publish

Contents:

Introduction: Indian Cities / Kent Blansett, Cathleen D. Cahill, and Andrew Needham

Part I. Remaking Urban Spaces in Early America

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

Communicating sovereignty in Balbancha : The Performance of Native American Diplomacy in early New Orleans / Daniel H. Usner

Part II. Imperial Cities and Dispossession in the Nineteenth Century

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

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

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

When the City Comes to the Indian : Yavapai-Apache Exodus and Return to Urban Indian Homelands, 1870s-1920s / Maurice Crandall

Part III. Building Community in Twentieth-Century Indian Cities

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

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

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

Neeginan : the Struggle to Build an Indigenous "Enclave" in Postwar Winnipeg / David Hugill

Part IV: Indigenous Urban Futures in the Twenty-First Century

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

"Building the Perfect Human to Invade" : Dikos Ntsaaígíí-19 (COVID-19) from Border Towns to the Navajo Nation / Jennifer Denetdal

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:

Indian Rights Association Complimentary Collecti

Other Format:

Online version: Indian cities.

ISBN:

9780806176635

0806176636

OCLC:

1269419544

Publisher Number:

40031020093