Indian metropolis : Native Americans in Chicago, 1945-75
(2005, original release: 2002)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
Local History/Genealogy/LIH/305.897077311/LAGRAND,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield : University of Illinois Press, 2005
EDITION
First Illinois paperback [edition]
DESCRIPTION
xii, 284 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780252072963, 0252027728, 9780252072963
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Originally published: 2002
Land, labor, and war -- Relocation and its attractions -- Coming to Chicago -- Living and working in the city -- Surviving the city -- A new type of Indian -- New Indians in a new America -- Activists and institutions
American Indians urbanized more quickly in the second half of the 20th century than any other racial or ethnic group in the United States, with Chicago's Native American population expanding twentyfold. This is the first historical case study of Indian urbanisation