ISBN:
9781469651408
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (272 pages).
Series Statement:
Critical indigeneities
Series Statement:
North Carolina scholarship online
Keywords:
Geschichte 1952-1972
;
Indianer
;
Binnenwanderung
;
Landflucht
;
Förderung
;
Soziale Situation
;
Indians of North America Social conditions
;
Indians of North America Government relations
;
History
;
Indians of North America Urban residence
;
Migration, Internal
;
USA
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2019
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651385.001.0001
URL:
https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651385.001.0001
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