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Our Elders Lived It: American Indian Identity in the City

Our Elders Lived It: American Indian Identity in the City Paperback / softback - 2001 - 1st Edition

by Deborah Davis Jackson

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Paperback / softback. New. More than half of all native Americans live in cities yet urban Indians have not received the same attention as "traditional" Indians who dwell on reservations. This is a study of a midsized city where shaping a distinct identity has been complicated by economic misfortune and social [deprivation.
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  • Title Our Elders Lived It: American Indian Identity in the City
  • Author Deborah Davis Jackson
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 209
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Northern Illinois University Press, De Kalb, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Date 2001-12-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780875805917
  • ISBN 9780875805917 / 0875805914
  • Weight 0.62 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.54 x 0.67 in (21.34 x 14.07 x 1.70 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
  • Library of Congress subjects Indians of North America - Ethnic identity, Indians of North America - Urban residence
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001044520
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.897

From the publisher

More than half of all Native Americans live in cities, yet urban indians have not received the same attention as "traditional" indians who dwell on reservations. This groundbreaking anthropological investigation shatters stereotypes of what it means to be an ndian in America, arguing that the transition to an urban lifestyle requires a reshaping and reconceptualizing of self-identity.

One of the most pressing concerns facing urban Native Americans today is the question of what constitutes a legitimate claim to Native identity. The importance of identity emerges in such practical matters as participation in tribal functions, entitlement to community aid, and political representation. The appropriation of indian symbols and lifeways by nonIndians has further blurred notions of identity.

Explaining that ethnic identity is constructed and maintained through social interaction, Jackson demonstrates the importance of community in indian culture. Our Elders Lived It is the result of extensive fieldwork in an Upper Great Lakes midsized city, where life has been complicated by economic misfortune and social deprivation. Informed but not dominated by identity theory, Jackson's sensitive interviews and personal narratives allow the indian community to speak for itself and to present its own vision of the challenges facing urban Native Americans.

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Citations

  • Choice, 09/01/2002, Page 146

About the author

Deborah Davis Jackson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Earlham College.