Indians on the Move: Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century

by Douglas K. Miller

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469651386
• ISBN13: 9781469651385
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"