Research Catalog

Title

Indian Americans in Dallas : migrations, missions, and styles of adaptation / by James Goodner ; edited by Arthur Harkins and Richard Woods.

Author

Goodner, James

Publication

Minneapolis, Minnesota : University of Minnesota, October, 1969.

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Additional Authors

• Harkins, Arthur M.
• Woods, Richard G., 1933-

Description

42 leaves; 28 cm

Subject

• Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation > Dallas
• Indians of North America > Missions > Dallas
• Indians of North America > Migrations
• Urban Indians > North America
• Texas > Dallas

Note

• "Training Center for Community Programs in coordination with the Office of Community Programs, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs."

Contents

An emerging Indian society in Dallas -- Three adjustment patterns -- Changes and conflicts on the concepts of Indianness -- Developing urban pan-Indianness -- The processes of pan-tribalism -- Community charactersitics and the need for an Indian center -- The function of the "go-between" -- Person-orinetation versus object-orientation -- Attitudes toward schooling -- Housing for Indians in Dallas -- The employment experience -- Representation of Dallas Indian people to the larger urban society -- The Indian church -- Non-denominationalism and pan-Indianness -- Financing the urban Indian church -- The nature of the urban Indian church fellowship -- Expectations of change -- Informality, discipline, and style of church services -- The urban Indian church and residential patterns -- An example of urban Indian church budgeting -- Tribal pluralism and church structure -- Indian churches and multi-ethnic membership potentials.

OCLC

• 639706342
• SCSB-10246041

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library