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The Urban Indian Experience in America by Fixico, Donald Lee, 1951- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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As the first ethnohistory of modern urban Indians, this perceptive study looks at Indians from many tribes living in cities throughout the United States. Fixico has had unparalleled access to Native Americans, particularly their contemporary oral tradition. Through firsthand observations, interviews, and conventional historical sources, he has been able to assess the major impact urbanization has had on Indians and see how they have come to terms with both the negative and enriching aspects of living in cities.Today two-thirds of all Indians live in cities. Many of these urban Indians are third- or fourth-generation city dwellers, the descendants of those who first came to urban areas during the federal government's push for relocation from the late 1940s through the 1960s. Fixico looks at both groups of urban Native Americans -- those who first settled in cities some fifty years ago and those who have grown up there in the past thirty years -- and finds in their experiences a record of survival and adaptation.Fixico offers a new view of urban Indians, one centered on questions of how their modern identity emerges and perseveres. He shows how the corrosive effects of cultural alien

Who reads The Urban Indian Experience in America?

Author

Fixico, Donald Lee, 1951-

Publisher

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826322166

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Science, Sociology

Updated

2026-03-24