Dissertation Information for Myla Thyrza Vicenti Carpio NAME: - Myla Thyrza Vicenti Carpio
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- History
SCHOOL:
- Arizona State University (USA) (2001)
ADVISORS: - Peter Iverson
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - Robert A. Trennert Jr. - Chris Smith - Myla Thyrza Vicenti Carpio - James Riding In
MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected
Title: “'Let Them Know We Still Exist': Indians in Albuquerque”
Abstract: The movements of indigenous populations to North American urban areas have occurred over millennia. Before early colonial urban areas provided security, community, and commercial activity for Europeans, Native urban communities had already forged urban centers with expansive trading spheres. Today's Native urban life corresponds to the "intimate interaction" of Native peoples in an urban landscape with few physical boundaries. Urban Indians concentrate on the survival of a culture within an urban American culture, largely contrary to their own, and they bring their tribal cultures into an "intimate interaction" for continuity and perseverance in an urban landscape.
In this dissertation, the author adds to the evolving research on urban Indians to illustrate the survival of Indian identity, and more importantly, tribal identity, while living in an urban setting. Chapter one includes a brief literature review depicting the changes in research on Urban Indians. Chapter two focuses on issues facing the general urban American Indian population, such as identity, health, and welfare reform. The history of Albuquerque, New Mexico and the tenuous relationship between the city government and Indians in Albuquerque is examined in chapter three.
The writer grew up in Albuquerque and saw a different version of urban identity; in some cases, she acknowledged "urban" only as a location of current address, but always focused on tribal and reservation ties. A constant movement back and forth from reservation to city exists as does building bridges between the reservation and urban life. Thus, chapter four explores the different aspects and dimensions of Indian communities in the city, such as music, the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, the Albuquerque Indian Center, and tribally-focused organizations, all ways in which Indians in Albuquerque express and continue tribal culture. More importantly, the writer includes the continually neglected area of Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgendered urban Indians. In chapter five the author furnishes an example of bridging urban Indian life and the reservation community through the Laguna Colony of Albuquerque. The conclusion offers a comment on the political potential of community and broad-based organizing.
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