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Barron, F. L. and Joseph Garcea, eds. Urban Indian Reserves: Forging New Relationships in Saskatchewan. Saskatoon: Purich Pub., 1999.
"This volume examines the creation and implications of urban Indian reserves in Saskatchewan.... The book focuses on four Saskatchewan urban reserves in Saskatoon, Prince Albert, Yorkton and Fort Qu'Appelle." – Evelyn J. Peters, Canadian Journal of Urban Research, June 2002.
Brown, Donald N. Crossroads Oklahoma: the Urban Indian Experience in Oklahoma. Stillwater: Crossroads Oklahoma Project, College of Arts and Sciences Extension, Oklahoma State University, 1981.
Buff, Rachel. Immigration and the Political Economy of Home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
"Buff argues that the two groups display interesting similarities. Immigration—or, as she neatly phrases it, "im/migration"—is the common thread linking the groups. In both, notable histories of migration, rooted in capitalist/colonialist hegemony, have led to lasting problems of adjustment after settling in new homelands. Basically, these problems revolve around the racialization of West Indians and Native Americans, their economic status, and the fact of transnationalism, which dynamically links old and new homelands. Moreover, the two groups have evolved similar mechanisms for coping with their im/migration-related problems, and Buff argues that ethnic festivals—Carnival in the case of West Indians and Native American powwows—are of particular significance. By conceptualizing, organizing, and participating in these festivals, West Indians and Native Americans create new communities and identities through which they adjust to the challenges of migration." –Milton Vickermann, Journal of American History, vol. 89, no. 2 (Sept. 2002).
Chaudhuri, Joyotpaul. Urban Indians of Arizona--Phoenix, Tucson, and Flagstaff. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1974.
Danziger, Edmund Jefferson, Jr. Survival and Regeneration: Detroit's American Indian Community. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991.
Relies on hundreds of oral histories to construct history from 1900 to 1980s history of Detroit's Indian community. The community emerged as employment opportunities attracted Indians at the turn of the century. World War II employment opportunities further expanded, and 1950s relocations grew the community. During the 1970s cultural pride and civil rights movement Detroit Indians effected growth of community centers and self determination policies resulting in a complex and extensive sociocultural infrastructure by the 1980s.
Eagle, Adam Fortunate. Heart of the Rock: the Indian Invasion of Alcatraz. In collaboration with Tim Findley. Foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.
"A prominent leader in Bay Area activism, [Adam Fortunate Eagle] was one of the invasion's primary leaders and remained involved, even as events spiraled out of control.... His account is comprehensive, beginning with the social unrest and dire circumstances that led to the 'Indian civil rights movement' and closing with the fate of its participants after the occupation had come to a close. Heart of the Rock is.... a memoir of one of the movement's active participants, permeated with Fortunate Eagle's own political and cultural experiences and perspectives—one story from the back of the turtle." – Taiawagi Helton, The Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 4 (Winter, 2003).
Fixico, Donald L. Termination and Relocation: Federal Indian Policy, 1945-60. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986.
"He shows how a combination of often-conflicting circumstances contributed to the policy shift. They included the rising belief that the Indians should take their place in American society, a cost-conscious Congress, Indian calls for a loosening of federal trust restrictions, the lack of an effective Indian commissioner in the immediate postwar era, as well as the political ascendancy of cultural insensitive bureaucrats and politicians such as Commissioner Dillon Myer and Sen. Patrick McCarran." --Laurence M. Hauptman, Journal of American History, Vol. 74, No. 4 (March, 1988), 1387.
_____. The Urban Indian Experience in America. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000.
"This work chronicles the governmental, historical, cultural, social, health and economic realities of the American Indian population who relocated from U.S. reservations to cities beginning in 1951 under the governments Bureau of Placement and Relocation. It contends that despite many difficulties, unique and viable Urban Indian cultures have been established in many of cities." – Raymond A. Bucko, Anthropology Review Database, May 15, 2002. http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/showme.cgi?keycode=1539
Frazier, Gregory W. Urban Indians: Drums from the Cities. Denver: Arrowstar Publishing, 1993.
Gabourie, Fred Whitedeer. Justice and the Urban American Indian. Sherman Oaks, CA: Merdler and Gabourie, 1971.
Grant, Gail. The Concrete Reserve: Corporate Programs for Indians in the Urban Work Place. Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1983.
"Grant describes native employment programs in six firms representative of: various regions in the west; a variety of industrial sectors; diverse types of native employment programs, company ownership and size. The case study format is used, and one chapter is devoted to each program (The Saskatchewan Power Corporation; Native Metal Industries Limited; Syncrude Canada Limited; NOVA, an Alberta Corporation; Manitoba Telephone Sytems; an, INCO Metals Company, Manitoba Division)." –Menno Boldt, Canadian Public Policy, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Dec., 1984), p. 491.
Groves, Robert. Re-fashioning the Dialogue: Urban Aboriginal Governance in Canada. Ottawa: National Association of Friendship Centers, 1999.
Guillemin, Jeanne. Urban Renegades: the Cultural Strategy of American Indians. New York: Columbia University Press, 1975.
"Guillemin focuses on a group of 2-3000 Micmac, the largest Native American group living in Boston. Originally confined to the Canadian Maritime provinces, the Micmac are now equally at home on their reservation and in the city.... The book's strengths are its extensive case studies of a number of individual Micmac men and women..., its incisive discussion of male peer group behavior, a welcome look at Micmac women as they cope with each other, their men, and their children, and finally, a detailed account of the various ways in which the Micmac retain their Indianness—how they share information, money, cars, rooms, and child care; why they value social relationships over settings; and how the reserves in Canada act as 'home bases' where children are socialized, the old retire, and to which the urban migrants periodically retain from their struggles with city life." –Robert N. Lynch, American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 2, no. 4 (Winter, 1975-1976), pp. 380.
Hanson, Winona DuBray. The Urban Indian. San Francisco State University, 1980. * Full text available online*
"The document presents six articles that provide a glimpse of the uniqueness of American Indian cultural conflict, focusing on aspects of the culture which warrant special attention.... The first article is a case example in social work pertaining to social development of urban Indians. The next article provides suggested techniques in grief counseling for Native Americans. The third article looks at the role Native Americans (spiritual leaders, medicine men) have in psychotherapy. The fourth article provides a brief history of the American Indian woman's role from early times to today, and then presents various roles urban American Indian women play today. The fifth article addresses sexuality and American Indians; example topics are rape, homosexuality, and sexual oppression. The last article discusses the plight of the Indian elderly in the urban areas in reference to their needs, the role of the Indian elderly, mental impairment, understanding the elderly, and the Older Americans Act." Educational Resource Information Center, ED231587
Jackson, Deborah Davis. Our Elders Lived It: American Indian Identity in the City. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002.
"Deborah Davis Jackson explores American Indian identity in a mid-sized, industrialized upper Great Lakes city. She attempts to discover both "who might reasonably be considered American Indian" and "what constituted their 'Indianness"' (p. xii). Jackson studies a real Native-American community, but to protect the identity of its members she renames the city in which they live 'Riverton.'" – David Beck, Michigan Historical Review, (March, 2003)
Jones, Dorothy Miriam. Urban Native Men and Women: Differences in Their Work Adaptations.Fairbanks: Institute of Social, Economic, and Government Research, University of Alaska, 1976.
Kerri, James N. Unwilling Urbanites: the Life Experiences of Canadian Indians in a Prairie City. Washington: University Press of America, 1978.
LaGrand, James B. Indian Metropolis: Native Americans in Chicago, 1945-75. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
Lawrence, Bonita. "Real" Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
"centers on what the author refers to as the 'organized obliteration of Indigenous presence': the erasure of Nativeness, for example on the many official documents that are today used to determine an individual's identity and heritage. Her book relentlessly challenges those assumptions that pervade the dominant culture that envision Indianness as something that will continue to "die" with mixed-bloodedness and urbanity. She also critically examines the legacy of how colonial regulation of Native identity has shaped Native self-definitions, varying between those whose Indianness is assured by federal regulation and those whose Indianness is not."
--Maximilian C. Forte, KACIKE: Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology
Lobo, Susan and Kurt Peters, eds. American Indians and the Urban Experience. Walnut Creek, CA: Altimira Press, 2001.
A Collection of articles. The article titles are: "The Urban Tradition among Native Americans" (Jack D. Forbes); "Telling the Indian Urban: Representations in American Indian Fiction" (Carol Miller); "Yaqui Cultural and Linguistic Evolution through a History of Urbanization" (Octaviana V. Trujillo); "Is Urban a Person or a Place? Characteristics of Urban Indian Country" (Susan Lobo); "Retribalization in Urban Indian Communities" (Terry Straus, Debra Valentino); "And the Drumbeat Still Goes On...Urban Indian Institutional Survival into the New Millennium" (Joan Weibel-Orlando); "Continuing Identity: Laguna Pueblo Railroaders in Richmond, California" (Kurt M. Peters); "Feminists or Reformers? American Indian Women and Community in Phoenix, 1965-1980" (Paivi Hoikkala); "The Cid" (Julian Lang); "An Urban Platform for Advocating Justice: Protecting the Menominee Forest" (David M. Beck); "Urban (Trans)Formations: Changes in the Meaning and Use of American Indian Identity" (Angela A. Gonzales); "'This Hole in Our Heart': The Urban-Raised Generation and the Legacy of Silence" (Deborah Davis Jackson); "Weaving Andean Networks in Unstable Labor Markets" (Alex Julca); "Red Wit in the City: Urban Indian Comedy" (Darby Li Po Price); "Healing through Grief: Urban Indians Reimagining Culture and Community" (Renya Ramirez); "Downtown Oklahoma City: 1952" (Victoria Bomberry); and "Rejection and Belonging in Addiction and Recovery: Four Urban Indian Men in Milwaukee" (Christine T. Lowery)."
Makofsky, Abraham. Tradition and Change in the Lumbee Indian Community of Baltimore. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America, 1971.
Nagler, Mark. Indians in the City: a Study of the Urbanization of Indians in Toronto. Ottawa: Canadian Research Centre for Anthropology, Saint Paul University, 1970.
"This study, focused upon social and economic adjustment to urban life, is based on 150 interviews taken in 1964-66 with adult Indians residing mainly in Toronto. The interviews covered reasons for migration to the city; education and vocational training; employment; and such problems of social adjustment as welfare, drinking and criminality, organizational participation, and attitudes toward Indian ancestry." --Arthur K. Davis, American Sociological Review, Vol. 36, no. 6 (Dec., 1971), 1163.
Richards, John. Neighbors Matter: Poor Neighborhoods and Urban Aboriginal Policy. Toronto: C.D. Howe Institute, 2001. *Full text available online*
"This Commentary reviews census evidence on social outcomes in eight Canadian cities with the largest aboriginal populations.... In general, educational levels and employment rates for aboriginals who live in poor neighborhoods are well below those for aboriginals in nonpoor neighborhoods, which, in general, are below those for nonaboriginals.... The Commentary advances two recommendations directed to provincial governments. The first is to create separate school systems explicitly for aboriginal children.... The second recommendation is to augment in-work benefits for low-income families with children, and to render access to untied welfare benefits harder for the employable." --from the text
Sandefur, Gary D. American Indian Migration and Economic Opportunities. Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1986.
See article under same title
Sanderson, Frances and Heather Howard-Bobiwash, eds. The Meeting Place: Aboriginal Life in Toronto. Toronto: Native Canadian Centre of Toronto, 1997.
"The book offers several perspectives on the Aboriginal history of Toronto, urban self-government, Elders' views on Native Education, and profiles of eight community members. The rich and vibrant history of this urban community is reflected in the documentation of First Nations culture, politics and urban life."
– Author's abstract
Shorten, Lynda. Without Reserve: Stories from Urban Natives. Edmonton: NeWest Press, 1991.
Stanbury, W. T. and Jay H. Siegel. Success and Failure: Indians in Urban Society. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1975.
"Originally a joint venture involving social scientists and business faculty at the University of British Columbia, this report is based on interviews of a sample of 1,095 off-reservation Indians.... The relationship of British Columbian Indians to the institutions of the dominant society is the major focus of the book and the subject matter of five substantial chapters. Educational achievement, the use of medical facilities, legal marriage status, and participation in the labor market are subjected to detailed scrutiny and compared to general statistics on the Canadian Indian population as a whole." –Jeanne Guillemin, Contemporary Sociology, vol. 5, no.l 5 (Sept., 1976), 645-646.
Straus, Terry. Indians of the Chicago Area. Chicago: NAES College, 1990.
Taylor, Michael. The Urban Indian Experience: a Denver Portrait: Moccasins on Pavement. Denver: Denver Museum of Natural History, 1978.
Waddell, Jack O. and O. Michael Watson, eds. The American Indian in Urban Society. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1971.
"Jorgensen develops the thesis that Indians have been integrated into the national society for over a century and have been held in an underdeveloped, rural, satellite, and exploited niche by the economically and politically dominant 'metropolis.' His concern is not with urban Indians so much as with the conservative hold that dominant metropolis-subordinate satellite relationships have historically had on reservation communities." --John A. Price, Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 3, no. 2 (Mar., 1974), 168.
Weibel-Orlando, Joan. Indian Country, L.A.: Maintaining Ethnic Community in Complex Society. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
"The six sections of the book address the problem of identifying the Los Angeles Indian community. Section 1 pertains to the historic background of the Los Angeles Indian community, dating back to the inception of the BIA's relocation program in 1952.... Section 2 examines the 'community in complex society' and offers methodological and theoretical solutions to the problem of identifying ethnicity and community in the postmodern world.... In section 3, Weibel-Orlando discusses the importance of Indian institutions in the Los Angeles Indian community.... Status and roles in several recreational, religious, and political Indian institutions are reviewed in section 4.... The status and roles of members of the Los Angeles Indian community are described in three life histories in section 5.... The final two chapters...cover the attrition and death of the ICI as well as the ways in which members of the Los Angles Indian community responded to its loss and some personal tragedies within the community." --Benjamin R. Kracht, American Ethnologist, Vol. 21, no. 4 (Nov., 1994), 1053-1054.
Brunette, Pauline. “The Minneapolis Urban Indian Community.” Hennepin County History 49 (Winter 1989-90): 4-15.
Carrico, Susan Hunter. “Urban Indians in San Diego, 1850-1900.” M. A. thesis, University of San Diego, 1984.
Englander, Marilyn J. “Through their Words: Tradition and the Urban Indian Woman's Experience.” Ph. D. diss., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1985.
Metzger, Lynn Rodeman. “Cleveland American Indian Center: Urban Survival and Adaptation.” Ph. D. diss., Case Western Reserve University, 1989.
Rosenthal, Nicolas G. “‘Walk across the bridge- an' you'll find your people’: Native Americans in Portland, Oregon, 1945-1980.” M.A. thesis, University of Oregon, 2000.
Sandefur, Gary D. "American Migration and Economic Opportunities," International Migration Reviews, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Spring, 1986), 55-68.
"This article examines interstate migration and labor force participation among White, American Indian, and intermarried Indian/White couples in the US. The results show that endogamous American Indian couples are much less likely to change states of residence than are the other 2 groups of couples. The effect of interstate migration on labor force participation does not vary across the 3 groups of couples. The implications of these results for the assimilation and internal colonial models of race relations and for federal Indian policy are discussed." --Author's abstract
Shoemaker, Nancy. “Urban Indians and Ethnic Choices: American Indian Organizations in Minneapolis, 1920-1950.” Western History Quarterly 19 (November 1988): 431- 47.
Tapia, Lola Ann. “Urban Indians in Orange County.” M.A. thesis, California State University, 1977.
Vicenti Carpio, Myla. “' Let them know we still exist': Indians in Albuquerque." Ph.D. dissertation, Arizona State University, 2001.
Wagner, Jean K. “An Examination and Description of Acculturation of Selected Individual American Indian Women in an Urban Area.” Ph. D. diss., New York University, 1972.
Zimmerman, Leslie Ann. “The Urban Indian Community of Minneapolis, Minnesota: an Analysis of Educational Achievements, Housing Conditions, and Health Care from the Relocation of 1952 to Today.” M.S. thesis, Montana State University, Bozeman, 2004.
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