Unfair Labor?: American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago

by David R. M. Beck

Unfair Labor? is the first book to explore the economic impact of Native Americans who participated in the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago. By the late nineteenth century, tribal economic systems across the Americas were decimated, and tribal members were desperate to find ways to support their families and control their own labor. As U.S. federal policies stymied economic development in tribal communities, individual Indians...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496234723
• ISBN13: 9781496234728
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"