| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.1

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Book Review

The Urban Indian Experience in America. By Donald L. Fixico. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. xiii + 251 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35, cloth; $17.95, paper.)

The rural and tribal focus of U. S. Indian policy has heavily influenced the focus of historical scholarship about Indians. In the process of creating and administering rural enclaves for Indian tribes, the federal government created convenient collections of documents concerning well-defined groups. Conversely, it generated few records about Indians outside the federal enclaves. Partly for this reason, scholars have paid scant attention to an important aspect of Indian history--life in American cities. 1

Indians do have urban histories worth telling, especially since World War II when they became more numerous in cities than on reservations. But few historians have studied urban Indians, no doubt because the challenges are formidable, particularly in studies with a national scope. Locating sources of information and writing vivid narratives about a dispersed, diverse population is difficult enough; and those tasks are inseparable from the greater challenge of defining the people to be studied without begging critical questions of Indian identity. . . .

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