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American Indians and the Urban Experience: 5
Author(s): Susan Lobo (Editor), Kurt Peters
- Publisher: AltaMira Press,U.S.
- Publication Date: 28 Feb. 2001
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 0742502759
- ISBN-13: 9780742502758
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
Unbounded by the restraints of traditional research agendas, the contributors to this work bring together research, art, and poetry to discuss themes in the lives of urban Indians…. This phenomenal and long overdue collection is especially useful to those who teach courses in Native American studies, ethnic studies, anthropology, and urban studies. — Linda Rhone, Cowley County (Kan.) College
Policy studies have focused on the federal government”s relocation program….Social sciences studies have have addressed issues relating to drinking and group membership exclusively through the use of quantitative surveys … Lobo and Peters” edited collection tries to move beyond these concern and present a fuller, richer picture of American Indian urban life….The majority of essays … cover an extraordinary wide range―from pre-Columbian urban centers to urban Indians in fiction to the funding challenges faces by urban Indian institutions today….This eclectic group of essays, poems, and photographs effectively introduces readers to the lives of Indian people living in cities. — James B. LaGrand, (Messiah College)
About the Author
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