Research Catalog

Title

The urbanization of American Indians : a critical bibliography / Russell Thornton, Gary D. Sandefur, Harold G. Grasmick.

Author

Thornton, Russell, 1942-

Publication

Bloomington : Published for the Newberry Library [by] Indiana University Press, ©1982.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sandefur, Gary D., 1951-
• Grasmick, Harold G., 1947-2020.

Description

viii, 87 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

The urbanization of American Indians is typically considered as a migration over the last few decades from rural areas and reservations to the present large cities of the United States and Canada. But this is only part of the phenomenon.

Series Statement

Bibliographical series / the Newberry Library Center for the History of the American Indian

Uniform Title

Bibliographical series (Newberry Library. Center for the History of the American Indian)

Subject

• Urban Indians > North America > Bibliography
• Indians of North America > Social conditions > Bibliography
• Urban Indians
• Indians of North America > Social conditions
• Indianen
• Urbanisatie
• Iwi taketake
• North America

Genre/Form

• bibliographies.
• Bibliographies
• Bibliographies.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

Introduction -- American Indian cities, towns, and villages -- Pre-Columbian settlements -- North of the Rio Grande -- Twentieth-century urbanization -- Trend toward Urbanization -- American Indians in cities: general considerations -- Determinants of rural-to-urban migration -- Demographic trends -- Urbanization and economic status -- The kinship system in the urban context -- Alcohol consumptions, crime, and mental health -- Continued urbanization: assimilation and adaptation -- Summary and Conclusions.

ISBN

• 0253362059
• 9780253362056

LCCN

81048087

OCLC

• ocm07975991
• 7975991
• SCSB-9504877

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library