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Author Beck, David, 1956- author.

Title Unfair labor? : American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago / David R.M. Beck
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 299 pages)
Contents Introduction -- Part 1: Overview: American Indians and ethnology at the fair. Fair representation? ; Evolution of the American Indian displays at the fair -- Part 2: Before the fair : making money at home. Native people collecting for the fair ; The Department of Ethnology collecting for the fair ; Government agencies collecting for the fair -- Part 3: During the fair : working in Chicago. Working the anthropological and education displays ; Working for commercial displays ; Those left out -- Afterword/afterward: American Indians and their New World -- Appendix: American Indians and other Indigenous people affiliated with the United States at the fair
Summary "Unfair Labor? breaks new ground by telling the stories of individual laborers, naming names, and uncovering the untold story of the roles that Native Americans involved in the 1893 World's Fair played in the changing economic conditions of tribal peoples and redefining their place in the American socioeconomic landscape"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 21, 2019)
SUBJECT World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) -- Influence
World's Columbian Exposition fast
Subject Indians of North America -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
Indians of North America -- Employment -- History -- 19th century
Indians of North America -- Social conditions -- 19th century
HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
HISTORY -- North America.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
Indians of North America -- Economic conditions
Indians of North America -- Employment
Indians of North America -- Social conditions
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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