Native Hubs Culture, Community, and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond

Name: Native Hubs Culture, Community, and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond
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ISBN: 9780822340300

ISBN-10: 0822340305

ISBN-13: 9780822340300

Edition: 2007

Authors: Renya K. Ramirez

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Most Native Americans in the United States live in cities, where many find themselves caught in a bind, neither afforded the full rights granted U.S. citizens nor allowed full access to the tribal programs and resources--particularly health care services--provided to Native Americans living on reservations. A scholar and a member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, Renya K. Ramirez investigates how urban Native Americans negotiate what she argues is, in effect, a transnational existence. Through an ethnographic account of the Native American community in California's Silicon Valley and beyond, Ramirez explores the ways that urban Indians have pressed their tribes, local institutions, and…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 7/9/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.84" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.880



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Disciplinary Forces and Resistance: The Silicon Valley and Beyond



Gathering Together in Hubs: Claiming Home and the Sacred in an Urban Area



Laverne Roberts's Relocation Story: Through the Hub



Who Are the "Real Indians"? Use of Hubs by Muwekma Ohlones and Relocated Native Americans



Empowerment and Identity from the Hub: Indigenous Women from Mexico and the United States



"Without Papers": A Transnational Hub on the Rights of Indigenous Communities



Reinvigorating Indigenous Culture in Native Hubs: Urban Indian Young People


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index