The Urban Indian Experience in America - Hardcover

Fixico, Donald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826322158 ISBN 13: 9780826322159

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 2000

Synopsis

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 first-hand observations, interviews, and conventional historical sources, he has been able to assess the major impact urbanisation has had on Indians and see how they have come to terms with both the negative and enriching aspects of living in cities. The result is an insightful and empathetic account of how Indian identity is sustained in cities. Fixico offers a new view of urban Indians, one centred on questions of how their modern identity emerges and perseveres. He shows how the corrosive effects of cultural alienation, alcoholism, poor health services, unemployment, and ghetto housing are slowly being overcome, particularly since the 1970s. After fifty years of urban experiences, Native Americans living in cities are better able today than at any other time to balance tradition and modernity.

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Review:

." . .this is a book with significant aims and some interesting content. . ."

Historian Donald Fixico has done a valuable service by synthesizing a large body of literature into a readable survey . . . "The Urban Indian Experience in America" provides a good grounding for learning this basic theory.

"Historian Donald Fixico has done a valuable service by synthesizing a large body of literature into a readable survey . . . "The Urban Indian Experience in America" provides a good grounding for learning this basic theory."

About the Author:

Donald L Fixico

About this edition

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0826322158
• ISBN 13: 9780826322159
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288