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Book SynopsisMost Native Americans in the United States live in cities, where many find themselves caught in a bind, neither afforded the rights granted US citizens nor allowed access to the tribal programs and resources. This book investigates how urban Native Americans negotiate what the author argues is, in effect, a transnational existence.
Trade Review“Renya K. Ramirez makes compelling use of ethnographic interviews to explore broad issues of cultural citizenship and transnational migration. Her analysis of Laverne Roberts’s notion of ‘hubs’ connecting Native people across time and space is a significant contribution to the all too sparse scholarship on urban American Indian communities.”—Susan Applegate Krouse, Director of the American Indian Studies Program, Michigan State University
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Native Hubs] will be of interest to those engaged with questions of indigeneity, settler colonialism, gender, political recognition, and historical and contemporary cases of transnationalism.
Native Hubs will be of particular interest to those engaged with histories found within (and moving outside of) California. In short, Ramirez has written a ‘breakout’ book in the anthropology of Native North America for the analytics and ethnography that it works with and the terrain that it covers, uncovers, and strives for.” -- Audra Simpson * American Ethnologist *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Disciplinary Forces and Resistance: The Silicon Valley and Beyond 27
2. Gathering Together in Hubs: Claiming Home and the Sacred in an Urban Area 58
3. Laverne Roberts’s Relocation Story: Through the Hub 84
4. Who Are the “Real Indians”? Use of Hubs by Muwekma Ohlones and Relocated Native Americans 102
5. Empowerment and Identity from the Hub: Indigenous Women from Mexico and the United States 126
6. “Without Papers”: A Transnational Hub on the Rights of Indigenous Communities 155
7. Reinvigorating Indigenous Culture in Native Hubs: Urban Indian Young People
Epilogue 171
Epilogue 199
Notes 209
Bibliography 241
Index 263
