Susan Lobo is a cultural anthropologist and consultant working primarily for American Indian tribes and community organizations in the U.S. and Central and South America. Kurt M. Peters is associate professor of Native American and comparative ethnic studies at Oregon State University.

Topics and approaches are almost as diverse as the one-half to two-thirds of American Indians who live in cities, not on reservations. The multiplicity of disciplinary angles helps accentuate the many facets of urban Indian experience....A richly suggestive gateway to an all-too-neglected aspect of Native American history and ongoing life.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 The Path to the Milky Way Leads to Los AngelesPart 4 Part I: Overview of UrbanismChapter 5 Part I: IntroductionChapter 6 Chapter 1: The Urban Tradition Among Native AmericansChapter 7 Two WorldsChapter 8 Chapter 2: Telling the Indian Urban: Representations in American Indian FictionChapter 9 Coyote as a Simple ManChapter 10 Chapter 3: Yaqui Culture and Linguistic Evolution through a History of UrbanizationPart 11 Part II: Structuring and Dynamics of Urban CommunitiesChapter 12 Part II: IntroductionChapter 13 Chapter 4: Is Urban a Person or a Place?: Characteristics of Urban Indian CountryChapter 14 Chapter 5: Retribalization in Urban Indian CommunitiesChapter 15 Chapter 6: And the Drumbeat Still Goes On...Urban Indian Institutional Survival into the New MilleniumChapter 16 CitiesChapter 17 Chapter 7: Continuing Identity: Laguna Pueblo Railroaders in Richmond, CaliforniaChapter 18 Chapter 8: Feminists or Reformers? American Indian Women and Community in Phoenix, 1965-1980Chapter 19 Metropolitan Indian Series #1Chapter 20 Chapter 9: The CidChapter 21 Derek and Peter Discuss the Pros and Cons of City LifeChapter 22 Chapter 10: An Urban Platform for Advocating Justice: Protecting the Menominee ForestPart 23 Part III: Individuals and Families in Urban ContextsChapter 24 Part III: IntroductionChapter 25 Ruby RoastChapter 26 Chapter 11: Urban (Trans)Formations: Changes in the Meaning and Use of American Indian IdentiyChapter 27 Ironworker I and Ironworker IIChapter 28 Chapter 12: "This Hole in Our Heart": The Urban-Raised Generation and the Legacy of SilenceChapter 29 Living Room of an Indian Family in the San Francisco Bay Area: Mantelpiece and Girl Watching T.V.Chapter 30 Quiet DesperationChapter 31 Chapter 13: Weaving Andean Networks in Unstable Labor MarketsChapter 32 A Poem Maybe for Tina DeschenieChapter 33 Kokopeli Gigging in the CityChapter 34 Chapter 14: Red Wit in the City: Urban Indian ComedyChapter 35 Indian PrideChapter 36 Chapter 15: Healing through Grief: Urban Indians Reimagining Culture and CommunityChapter 37 Red White & BlueChapter 38 Youngest Trapper on 7th StreetChapter 39 My UncleChapter 40 Chapter 16: Downtown Oklahoma City-1952Chapter 41 Letter HomeChapter 42 Chapter 17: Rejection and Belonging in Addiction and Recovery: Four Urban Indian Men in MilwaukeeChapter 43 Excerpt from a Work in ProgressChapter 44 Mattie Goes TravelingChapter 45 Index

Susan Lobo is a cultural anthropologist and consultant working primarily for American Indian tribes and community organizations in the U.S. and Central and South America. Kurt M. Peters is associate professor of Native American and comparative ethnic studies at Oregon State University.

Topics and approaches are almost as diverse as the one-half to two-thirds of American Indians who live in cities, not on reservations. The multiplicity of disciplinary angles helps accentuate the many facets of urban Indian experience....A richly suggestive gateway to an all-too-neglected aspect of Native American history and ongoing life.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 The Path to the Milky Way Leads to Los AngelesPart 4 Part I: Overview of UrbanismChapter 5 Part I: IntroductionChapter 6 Chapter 1: The Urban Tradition Among Native AmericansChapter 7 Two WorldsChapter 8 Chapter 2: Telling the Indian Urban: Representations in American Indian FictionChapter 9 Coyote as a Simple ManChapter 10 Chapter 3: Yaqui Culture and Linguistic Evolution through a History of UrbanizationPart 11 Part II: Structuring and Dynamics of Urban CommunitiesChapter 12 Part II: IntroductionChapter 13 Chapter 4: Is Urban a Person or a Place?: Characteristics of Urban Indian CountryChapter 14 Chapter 5: Retribalization in Urban Indian CommunitiesChapter 15 Chapter 6: And the Drumbeat Still Goes On...Urban Indian Institutional Survival into the New MilleniumChapter 16 CitiesChapter 17 Chapter 7: Continuing Identity: Laguna Pueblo Railroaders in Richmond, CaliforniaChapter 18 Chapter 8: Feminists or Reformers? American Indian Women and Community in Phoenix, 1965-1980Chapter 19 Metropolitan Indian Series #1Chapter 20 Chapter 9: The CidChapter 21 Derek and Peter Discuss the Pros and Cons of City LifeChapter 22 Chapter 10: An Urban Platform for Advocating Justice: Protecting the Menominee ForestPart 23 Part III: Individuals and Families in Urban ContextsChapter 24 Part III: IntroductionChapter 25 Ruby RoastChapter 26 Chapter 11: Urban (Trans)Formations: Changes in the Meaning and Use of American Indian IdentiyChapter 27 Ironworker I and Ironworker IIChapter 28 Chapter 12: "This Hole in Our Heart": The Urban-Raised Generation and the Legacy of SilenceChapter 29 Living Room of an Indian Family in the San Francisco Bay Area: Mantelpiece and Girl Watching T.V.Chapter 30 Quiet DesperationChapter 31 Chapter 13: Weaving Andean Networks in Unstable Labor MarketsChapter 32 A Poem Maybe for Tina DeschenieChapter 33 Kokopeli Gigging in the CityChapter 34 Chapter 14: Red Wit in the City: Urban Indian ComedyChapter 35 Indian PrideChapter 36 Chapter 15: Healing through Grief: Urban Indians Reimagining Culture and CommunityChapter 37 Red White & BlueChapter 38 Youngest Trapper on 7th StreetChapter 39 My UncleChapter 40 Chapter 16: Downtown Oklahoma City-1952Chapter 41 Letter HomeChapter 42 Chapter 17: Rejection and Belonging in Addiction and Recovery: Four Urban Indian Men in MilwaukeeChapter 43 Excerpt from a Work in ProgressChapter 44 Mattie Goes TravelingChapter 45 Index