Urban Voices: The Bay Area American Indian Community Volume 50

by Intertribal Friendship House, Susan Lobo, Ghassan Zeineddine

California has always been America's promised land--for American Indians as much as anyone. In the 1950s, Native people from all over the United States moved to the San Francisco Bay Area as part of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Relocation Program. Oakland was a major destination of this program, and once there, Indian people arriving from rural and reservation areas had to adjust to urban living. They did it by creating a cooperative, multi-tribal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816513163
• ISBN13: 9780816513161
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.5" x 9.6"