Description In 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocation Program, which encouraged the mass migration of roughly 100, 000 Native American people from rural to urban areas.
In the end, this is a story of shared experience across tribal lines, through which Indigenous people incorporated urban life into their ideas for Indigenous futures..
The dynamic histories of everyday people at the heart of this book shed new light on the adaptability of mobile Native American communities.
Indigenous migrants also used the financial, educational, and cultural resources they found in cities to feed new expressions of Indigenous sovereignty both off and on the reservation.
In their collective refusal to accept marginality and destitution on reservations, Native Americans used the urban relocation program to take greater control of their socioeconomic circumstances.
Miller here argues that a richer story should be told--one that recognizes Indigenous Mobility in terms of its benefits and not merely its costs.
But Douglas K.
At the time the program ended, many groups--from government leaders to Red Power activists--had already classified it as a failure, and scholars have subsequently positioned the program as evidence of America\'s enduring settler-colonial project.
Description In 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocation Program, which encouraged the mass migration of roughly 100, 000 Native American people from rural to urban areas
