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Modern American Indian life is urban, rural, and everything
in-between. Lobo and Peters have compiled an unprecedented
collection of innovative scholarship, stunning art, poetry, and
prose that documents American Indian experiences of urban life. A
pervasive rural/urban dichotomy still shapes the popular and
scholarly perceptions of Native Americans, but this is a false
expression of a complex and constantly changing reality. When
viewed from the Native perspectives, our concepts of urbanity and
approaches to American Indian studies are necessarily transformed.
Courses in Native American studies, ethnic studies, anthropology,
and urban studies must be in step with contemporary Indian
realities, and American Indians and the Urban Experience will be an
absolutely essential text for instructors. This powerful
combination of path-breaking scholarship and visual and literary
arts from poetry and photography to rap and graffiti will be
enjoyed by students, scholars, and a general audience. A Choice
Outstanding Academic Book."
Unfair Labor? is the first book to explore the economic impact of
Native Americans who participated in the 1893 World's Columbian
Exposition held in Chicago. By the late nineteenth century, tribal
economic systems across the Americas were decimated, and tribal
members were desperate to find ways to support their families and
control their own labor. As U.S. federal policies stymied economic
development in tribal communities, individual Indians found
creative new ways to make a living by participating in the cash
economy. Before and during the exposition, American Indians played
an astonishingly broad role in both the creation and the collection
of materials for the fair, and in a variety of jobs on and off the
fairgrounds. While anthropologists portrayed Indians as a
remembrance of the past, the hundreds of Native Americans who
participated were carving out new economic pathways. Unfair Labor?
breaks new ground by telling the stories of individual laborers at
the fair, uncovering the roles that Indians played in the changing
economic conditions of tribal peoples, and redefining their place
in the American socioeconomic landscape.
Robert G. Athearn Award from the Western History Association In
City Indian Rosalyn R. LaPier and David R. M. Beck tell the
engaging story of American Indians who migrated to Chicago from
across America to work and emerged as activists. From the 1893
World's Columbian Exposition to the 1934 Century of Progress Fair,
American Indians in Chicago voiced their opinions about political,
social, educational, and racial issues. City Indian focuses on the
privileged members of the American Indian community in Chicago:
doctors, nurses, business owners, teachers, and entertainers.
During the Progressive Era more than any other time in the city's
history, they could be found in the company of politicians and
society leaders, at Chicago's major cultural venues and events, and
in the press, speaking out. When Mayor "Big Bill" Thompson declared
that Chicago public schools teach "America First," American Indian
leaders publicly challenged him to include the true story of "First
Americans." As they struggled to reshape nostalgic perceptions of
American Indians, these men and women developed new associations
and organizations to help each other and to ultimately create a new
place to call home in a modern American city.
Robert G. Athearn Award from the Western History Association In
City Indian Rosalyn R. LaPier and David R. M. Beck tell the
engaging story of American Indians who migrated to Chicago from
across America to work and emerged as activists. From the 1893
World's Columbian Exposition to the 1934 Century of Progress Fair,
American Indians in Chicago voiced their opinions about political,
social, educational, and racial issues. City Indian focuses on the
privileged members of the American Indian community in Chicago:
doctors, nurses, business owners, teachers, and entertainers.
During the Progressive Era more than any other time in the city's
history, they could be found in the company of politicians and
society leaders, at Chicago's major cultural venues and events, and
in the press, speaking out. When Mayor "Big Bill" Thompson declared
that Chicago public schools teach "America First," American Indian
leaders publicly challenged him to include the true story of "First
Americans." As they struggled to reshape nostalgic perceptions of
American Indians, these men and women developed new associations
and organizations to help each other and to ultimately create a new
place to call home in a modern American city.
In 1855 the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw tribes of Oregon signed
the Empire Treaty with the United States, which would have provided
them rights as federally acknowledged tribes with formal
relationships with the U.S. government. The treaty, however, was
never ratified by Congress; in fact, the federal government lost
the document. Tribal leaders spent the next century battling to
overcome their quasi-recognized status, receiving some federal
services for Indians but no compensation for the land and resources
they lost. In 1956 the U.S. government officially terminated their
tribal status as part of a national effort to eliminate the
government's relationship with Indian tribes. These tribes
vehemently opposed termination yet were not consulted in this
action. In "Seeking Recognition," David R. M. Beck examines the
termination and eventual restoration of the Confederated Tribes at
Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw some thirty years later, in 1984.
Within this historical context, the termination and restoration of
the tribes take on new significance. These actions did not take
place in a historical vacuum but were directly connected with the
history of the tribe's efforts to gain U.S. government recognition
from the very beginning of their relations.
Unfair Labor? is the first book to explore the economic impact of
Native Americans who participated in the 1893 World's Columbian
Exposition held in Chicago. By the late nineteenth century, tribal
economic systems across the Americas were decimated, and tribal
members were desperate to find ways to support their families and
control their own labor. As U.S. federal policies stymied economic
development in tribal communities, individual Indians found
creative new ways to make a living by participating in the cash
economy. Before and during the exposition, American Indians played
an astonishingly broad role in both the creation and the collection
of materials for the fair, and in a variety of jobs on and off the
fairgrounds. While anthropologists portrayed Indians as a
remembrance of the past, the hundreds of Native Americans who
participated were carving out new economic pathways. Unfair Labor?
breaks new ground by telling the stories of individual laborers at
the fair, uncovering the roles that Indians played in the changing
economic conditions of tribal peoples, and redefining their place
in the American socioeconomic landscape.
Drawing on meticulous archival research and a close working
relationship with the Menominee Historic Preservation Department,
David R. M. Beck picks up where his earlier work, Siege and
Survival: History of the Menominee Indians, 1634-1856, ended. The
Struggle for Self-Determination begins with the establishment of a
small reservation in the Menominee homeland in northeastern
Wisconsin at a time when the Menominee economic, political, and
social structure came under aggressive assault. For the next
hundred years the tribe attempted to regain control of its destiny,
enduring successive policy attacks by governmental, religious, and
local business sources. The Menominee's rich forests became a
battleground on which they refused to cede control to the U.S.
government. The struggle climaxed in the mid-twentieth century when
the federal government terminated its relationship with the tribe.
Throughout this time the Menominee fought to maintain their
connection to their past and to regain control of their future. The
lessons they learned helped them through their greatest modern
disaster-termination-and enabled them to reconstruct a government
and a reservation as the twentieth century drew to a close. The
Struggle for Self-Determination reinterprets that story and
includes the viewpoint of the Menominee in the telling of it. David
R. M. Beck is a professor of Native American studies at the
University of Montana. He is the author of Siege and Survival:
History of the Menominee Indians, 1634-1856 (Nebraska 2002), which
won the Wisconsin Historical Society Book Award of Merit.
The Menominee Indians, or "wild rice people," have lived for
thousands of years in the region that is now called Wisconsin and
are the oldest Native American community that still lives there.
But the Menominee's struggle for survival and rights to their land
has been long and hard. David R. M. Beck draws on interviews with
tribal members, stories recorded by earlier researchers, and
exhaustive archival research to give us a full account of the
Menominee's early history. Beginning in the seventeenth century,
the Menominee's traditional way of life was intensely pressured by
a succession of outsiders. Native nations attacked other Native
nations, forcing their dislocation, and Europeans introduced the
fur trade to the area, disrupting the traditional economy and way
of life. In the nineteenth century Anglo-Americans poured into the
Old Northwest and surrounded the Menominee; as a result the
Menominee people were confined to a reservation in 1854. Beck
examines these crucial early events from an ethnohistorical
perspective, adding Menominee voices to the story and showing how
numerous individuals and leaders in the trading era and later
worked diligently to survive. The story is a complicated one: some
Menominees encouraged radical cultural change, while others--as
well as some non-Menominees--aided the community in its struggle to
maintain traditions. Beck provides the most complete written
history to date of this enduring Indian nation.
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