Indian Cities: Histories of Indigenous Urbanization biography and their very existence—the story

and their very existence—the story of American Indians since the end of the nineteenth century to the present is one of unprecedented resourcefulness and reinvention

and the promise of their becoming

A powerful story of a Vietnam veteran torn between his war experience and his Native American community

often on the fringes of urban centers

In tandem with other linguistic and narrative methods

Indian Cities: Histories of Indigenous Urbanization biography and their very existence—the storyFrom ancient metropolises like Pueblo Bonito and Tenochtitln to the twenty first century Oceti Sakowin encampment of NoDAPL water protectors, Native people have built and lived in cities a fact little noted in either urban or Indigenous histories. By foregrounding Indigenous peoples as city makers and city dwellers, as agents and subjects of urbanization, the essays in this volume simultaneously highlight the impact of Indigenous people on urban