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Indians on the move : Native American mobility and urbanization in the twentieth century / Douglas K. Miller

Miller, Douglas K. [Verfasser]

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020

Oxford : Oxford University Press

1 Online-Ressource (272 pages).

Critical indigeneities

North Carolina scholarship online

Previously issued in print: 2019

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-1-4696-5140-8 ; 978-1-46-965138-5

NW 2708 LB 48610

 

USA  Indianer  Binnenwanderung  Landflucht  Förderung  Soziale Situation  Geschichte 1952-1972 

 

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In 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocation Program, which encouraged the mass migration of roughly 100,000 Native American people from rural to urban areas. At the time the program ended, many groups - from government leaders to Red Power activists - had already classified it as a failure, and scholars have subsequently positioned the program as evidence of America's enduring settler-colonial project. But Douglas K. Miller here argues that a richer story should be told - one that recognises Indigenous mobility in terms of its benefits and not merely its costs. In their collective refusal to accept marginality and destitution on reservations, Native Americans used the urban relocation program to take greater control of their socioeconomic circumstances.