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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Making a Native Place in Urban Schools: American Indians and Education in Phoenix, 1940-2000 Abstract: This dissertation adds to our understanding of an important aspect of Native American history that historians have been slow to write about: urbanization. Although many estimate that, for decades now, the number of Native Americans living in urban areas has actually exceeded the number living on reservations, historians are still only just beginning to listen to the important stories that urban Indians have to tell. The stories that most scholars have told have tended to focus on urban migration as a process that has forced Natives to undergo complete cultural assimilation, relegating those who fail to do so to lives of despair and poverty. Urban Indians themselves, however, tell a different, more complex, and more positive story. Phoenix, Arizona, with one of the largest Native populations of any city in the U.S., has been an excellent place to learn about these stories, and Phoenix's public schools serve as an illuminating place to learn about urban Indians' efforts to maintain their identities in city settings. Phoenix Indians have continually worked to make the schools work for them, an often challenging endeavor. |
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