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Native Hubs - Culture, Community, and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond (Paperback)
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Native Hubs - Culture, Community, and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond (Paperback)
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Most Native Americans in the United States live in cities, where
many find themselves caught in a bind, neither afforded the full
rights granted U.S. citizens nor allowed full access to the tribal
programs and resources-particularly health care services-provided
to Native Americans living on reservations. A scholar and a member
of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, Renya K. Ramirez investigates
how urban Native Americans negotiate what she argues is, in effect,
a transnational existence. Through an ethnographic account of the
Native American community in California's Silicon Valley and
beyond, Ramirez explores the ways that urban Indians have pressed
their tribes, local institutions, and the federal government to
expand conventional notions of citizenship.Ramirez's ethnography
revolves around the Paiute American activist Laverne Roberts's
notion of the "hub," a space that allows for the creation of a
sense of belonging away from a geographic center. Ramirez describes
"hub-making" activities in Silicon Valley, including sweat lodge
ceremonies, powwows, and American Indian Alliance meetings,
gatherings at which urban Indians reinforce bonds of social
belonging and forge intertribal alliances. She examines the
struggle of the Muwekma Ohlone, a tribe aboriginal to the San
Francisco Bay area, to maintain a sense of community without a land
base and to be recognized as a tribe by the federal government. She
considers the crucial role of Native women within urban indigenous
communities; a 2004 meeting in which Native Americans from Mexico
and the United States discussed cross-border indigenous rights
activism; and the ways that young Native Americans in Silicon
Valley experience race and ethnicity, especially in relation to the
area's large Chicano community. A unique and important exploration
of diaspora, transnationalism, identity, belonging, and community,
Native Hubs is intended for scholars and activists alike.
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