American Indian Culture and Research Journal: Vol. 22, No. 4 (1998) Special Edition -- American Indians and the Urban Experience
Articles (click on the links below to view abstracts)
- Introduction, by Susan Lobo and Kurt Peters
Overviews of Urbanism
- The Urban Tradition, by Jack Forbes
- Telling the Indian Urban: Representations in American Indian Fiction, by Carol Miller
- The Yaqui of Guadalupe, Arizona: A Century of Cultural Survival through Trilingualism, by Octaviana V. Trujillo
Urban Communities Defined, Structures and Examples
- Is Urban a Person or a Place? Characteristics of Urban Indian Country, by Susan Lobo
- Retribalization in Urban Indian Communities, by Terry Straus and Debra Valentino
- "Contrary to Our Way of Thinking": The Struggle for an American Indian Center in Chicago, 1946–1953, by Grant Arndt
- And the Drum Beat Goes On: Urban Native American Institutional Survival in the 1990s, by Joan Weibel-Orlando
- Feminists or Reformers? American Indian Women and Political Activism in Phoenix, 1965–1980, by Päivi Hoikkala
- Continuing Identity: Laguna Pueblo Railroaders in Richmond, California, by Kurt M. Peters
Individual Urban Experiences
- The (Re)Articulation of American Indian Identity: Maintaining Boundaries and Regulating Access to Ethnically Tied Resources, by Angela Gonzales
- "This Hole in Our Heart": Urban Indian Identity and the Power of Silence, by Deborah Davis Jackson
- Laughing Without Reservation: Indian Standup Comedians, by Darby Li Po Price
- Discrimination and Indigenous Identity in Chicago`s Native Community, by James V. Fenelon
- Healing Through Grief: Urban Indians Reimagining Culture and Community in San Jose, California, by Renya Katarine Ramirez
- Drinking, Foster Care, and the Intergenerational Continuity of Parenting in an Urban Indian Community, by Paul Spicer
- From the Outside Looking In: Rejection and Belongingness for Four Urban Indian Men in Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1944–1995, by Christine T. Lowery
- It's Okay To Be Native: Alska Native Cultural Strategies in Urban and School Settings, by Mary Grantham-Campbell
- The Safe Futures Initiative at Chief Leschi Schools: A School-Based Tribal Response to Alcohol-Drug Abuse, Violence-Gang Violence, and Crime on an Urban Reservation, by George M. Guilmet, David L. Whited, Norm Dorpat, and Cherlyn Pijanowski
Literature
- The Path to the Milky Way Leads through Los Angeles (poem), by Joy Harjo
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