Urban voices
Subtitle: the Bay Area American Indian community
By: Community History Project, Intertribal Friendship House, Oakland, California ; editorial committee Susan Lobo, coordinating editor ... [et al.].
Contributors: Lobo, Susan.
Series: Sun tracks : an American Indian literary series -- v. 50; Sun tracks -- v. 50.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Indians of North America -- California; Indians of North America -- Folklore; Indians of North America -- History -- 20 century
Other titles: Center for Educational Pluralism Collection.
Description: In the 1950s, Native people from all over the United States moved to the San Francisco Bay Area as part of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Relocation Program. Oakland was a major destination of this program, and once there, Indian people arriving from rural and reservation areas had to adjust to urban living. They did it by creating a cooperative, multi-tribal community--not a geographic community, but rather a network of people linked by shared experiences and understandings. The Intertribal Friendship House in Oakland became a sanctuary during times of upheaval in people's lives and the heart of a vibrant American Indian community. This album of essays, photographs, stories, and art chronicles some of the people and events that have played--and continue to play--a role in the lives of Native families in the Bay Area Indian community over the past seventy years. It offers insight into American Indian activism of the 1960s and '70s--including the occupation of Alcatraz--and shows how the Indian community continues to be created and re-created for future generations. [back cover].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-128).

A copy of this item is available in the Center for Educational Pluralism, located in Miller Hall 250.
Table of contents: title: The beginnings; title: Relocation; title: Building community; title: Times of change; title: Creating a community for future generations.