Indian Metropolis
Subtitle: Native Americans in Chicago, 1945-75
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: October 23, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780252027727
Subjects: History; Native American Sociology; Urban Sociology; Social Science; Ethnic Issues; Sociology; USA; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Social Science / Native American Studies; United States - 20th Century; Sociology - Urban; 20th century; Chicago; Chicago (Ill.); Illinois; Indians of North America; Social conditions; Urban residence
First sentence: Born in 1929 on the Rosebud Reservation, Rudy Arcoren was among the third generation of Sioux to watch his native homeland-and his share of it-steadily diminish.
Description: "American Indians urbanized more quickly in the second half of the twentieth century than any other racial or ethnic group in the country. This dynamic social history, the first of its kind, focuses on Chicago during a thirty-year period of remarkable demographic growth that saw the city's American Indian population increase twentyfold.".

"More than an outgrowth of public policy implemented by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the exodus of American Indians from reservations to cities was linked to broader patterns of social and political change after World War II.

Indian Metropolis places the Indian people within the context of many of the twentieth century's major themes, including rural to urban migration, the expansion of the wage labor economy, increased participation in and acceptance of political radicalism, and growing interest in ethnic nationalism."--BOOK JACKET.