Indian Resilience and Rebuilding Indigenous Nations in the Modern American West

Name: Indian Resilience and Rebuilding Indigenous Nations in the Modern American West
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ISBN: 9780816530649

ISBN-10: 0816530645

ISBN-13: 9780816530649

Edition: 2nd 2013

Authors: Donald L. Fixico

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Indian Resilience and Rebuilding provides an Indigenous view of the last one-hundred years of Native history and guides readers through a century of achievements. It examines the progress that Indians have accomplished in rebuilding their nations in the 20th century, revealing how Native communities adapted to the cultural and economic pressures in modern America. Donald Fixico examines issues like land allotment, the Indian New Deal, termination and relocation, Red Power and self-determination, casino gaming, and repatriation. He applies ethnohistorical analysis and political economic theory to provide a multi-layered approach that ultimately shows how Native people reinvented themselves…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication date: 10/10/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.90" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Fixico is director of the Indigenous Nations Studies Program and professor of history at the University of Kansas.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction. Rebuilding Nations and the Indian Problem: Why Does It Matter?



Resilience



Reservation Life and Land Allotments: Adaptation to New Homelands



Missionaries and Boarding Schools: Education as a Tool



The Indian New Deal and Tribal Governments: Flexibility of Adaptation



Relocation and Urban Indian Communities: Navigating Cultural Systems



Rebuilding



Red Power Activism, the American Indian Movement, and Wounded Knee: The Rise of Modern Indian Leadership



Political Economy and Tribal Natural Resources: Resource Management



Indian Gaming in the West: Indian Entrepreneurship and Modern Political Economy



Sacred Land Returns and Repatriation: Power of Federal Indian Law


Conclusion. Resilience, Rebuilding Nations, and Problem Solved: It Does Matter


Notes


Bibliography


Index