Title Indian cities : histories of indigenous urbanization / edited by Kent Blansett, Cathleen D. Cahill, and Andrew Needham

Published Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 332 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction: Indian cities / Kent Blansett, Cathleen D. Cahill, and Andrew Needham -- Part I. Remaking urban spaces in early America. "Others of a more ordinary quality" : Cherokee commoners in Charlestown during the winter of 1717 / Nathaniel Holly -- Communicating sovereignty in Balbancha : the performance of Native American diplomacy in early New Orleans / Daniel H. Usner -- Part II. Imperial cities and dispossession in the nineteenth century. From Manassas to Mankato : how the Civil War bled into the Indian wars / Ari Kelman -- Electric lights, tourist sights : gendering dispossession and colonial infrastructure at Niagara Falls / Mishuana R. Goeman -- Native Washington : indigenous histories, a federal landscape, and the making of the U.S. capital / C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa -- When the city comes to the Indian : Yavapai-Apache exodus and return to an urban Indian homelands, 1870s-1920s / Maurice Crandall -- Part III. Building community in twentieth-century Indian cities. Mni Luzahan and "our beautiful city" : indigenous resistance in the Black Hills up to 1937 / Elaine Marie Nelson -- Indigenizing Minneapolis : building American Indian community infrastructure in the mid-twentieth century / Sasha Maria Suarez -- There is no such thing as an urban Indian : Native American people living in Dallas / Douglas K. Miller -- Neeginan : the struggle to build an indigenous "enclave" in postwar Winnipeg / David Hugill -- Part IV. Indigenous urban futures in the twenty-first century. NoDAPL encampments : twenty-first-century Indian city / Dana E. Powell -- "Building the perfect human to invade" : Dikos Ntsaaígíí-19 (COVID-19) from border towns to the Navajo Nation / Jennifer Denetdale Summary All the contributions to this volume show how, from colonial times to the present day, Indigenous people have shaped and been shaped by urban spaces. Collectively they demonstrate that urban history and Indigenous history are incomplete without each other Notes "This book is published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, and with the generous assistance of The McCasland Foundation, Duncan, Oklahoma." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost platform, viewed February 2, 2022) Subject Urban Indians -- North America Indians of North America -- Social conditions. Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity. Urbanization -- North America -- History City and town life -- North America -- History Urban Indians City and town life Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity Indians of North America -- Social conditions Urbanization North America Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Blansett, Kent, editor. Cahill, Cathleen D., editor. Needham, Andrew, 1971- editor. ISBN 9780806190495 0806190493

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