Book description
From ancient metropolises like Pueblo Bonito and TenochtitlAn 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…
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1 author picked Indian Cities as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This edited collection of cutting-edge essays by scholars from across North America captures the profound diversity of Indigenous urban experience.
Ranging from Indigenous cities that existed prior to European arrival through the colonial period to the recent past, this anthology explodes the notion that Indigenous and urban histories have little to do with each other.
From Coll's list on The best books on urban Indigenous lives.
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