Rosalyn R Lapier, David R M Beck

City Indian

Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893-1934

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Produktbeschreibung

Rosalyn R. LaPier is an assistant professor in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Montana and author of the award-winning Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet (Nebraska 2017). David R. M. Beck is a professor of Native American Studies at the University of Montana. He is the author of several books, including Seeking Recognition: The Termination and Restoration of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siulaw Indians, 1855–1984 (Nebraska, 2009) and The Struggle for Self-Determination: Menominee Indian History since 1854 (Nebraska, 2005). ¿

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9780803248397
• ISBN-10: 0803248393
• Artikelnr.: 41753441

Autorenporträt

Rosalyn R. LaPier (Blackfeet/Métis) is an associate professor in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Montana. She is the author of Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet (Nebraska, 2017). David R. M. Beck is a professor of Native American studies at the University of Montana. He is the author of several books, including Unfair Labor? American Indians and the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago (Nebraska, 2019) and The Struggle for Self-Determination: History of the Menominee Indian History since 1854 (Nebraska, 2005).    

Inhaltsangabe

List of Photographs
Preface and Acknowledgments
1. American Indians and Chicago in the Nineteenth Century
2. The World Comes to Chicago (The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition)
3. Indian Professionals in the City
4. Indian Encampments and Entertainments
5. The Indian Fellowship League
6. Emerging Organizations
7. Definitions of Indianness at the Century of Progress
8. Self-Determination
Appendix of Tables
1. Chicago Population and American Indian Population in Chicago, 1830–2010
2. Chicago Indians in the 1920 Census
3. Chicago Indians in the 1930 Census
Notes
Bibliography
Index