City Indian (Hardcover)

David R.M. Beck

ISBN 10: 0803248393 / ISBN 13: 9780803248397

Published by University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2015

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Hardcover. 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. A study of the significant role that Indigenous activists living in Chicago played in shaping local and national public perception of Native Americans in the early twentieth century. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: City Indian (Hardcover)
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803248393
• ISBN 13: 9780803248397
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

In City Indian, Rosalyn R. LaPier and David R. M. Beck tell the engaging story of American Indian men and women who migrated to Chicago from across America. 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 who were doctors, nurses, business owners, teachers, and entertainers. During the Progressive Era, more than at 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.

 

About the Author

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).