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• Title:Indian resilience and rebuilding : indigenous nations in the modern American west / Donald L. Fixico.
  
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• Author/Creator:Fixico, Donald Lee, 1951- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection
  
• Published/Created:Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2013]
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PG F59 N33 2013
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Indians of North America--Historiography.
  Indians of North America--Government relations.
  Indians of North America--Politics and government.
  Self-determination, National--United States.
  United States--Historiography.
  
• Description:xi, 284 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 23 cm
  
• Series:Modern American West.
  
• Summary:"This illuminating and comprehensive analysis of Native nation's resilience in the twentieth century demonstrates how Native Americans reinvented themselves, rebuilt their nations, and ultimately became major forces in the United States. Written by Donald L. Fixico, Indian Resilience and Rebuilding, redefines how modern American history can and should be told"--Provided by publisher.
  
• Local note:First Nations author.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-269) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780816518999 (cloth ; alk. paper)
  0816518998 (cloth ; alk. paper)
  9780816530649 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
  0816530645 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Reservation life and land allotments: adaptation to new homelands
  Missionaries and boarding schools: education as a tool
  The Indian New Deal and tribal governments: flexibility of adaptation
  Relocation and urban Indian communities: navigating cultural systems
  Red Power activism, the American Indian movement, and Wounded Knee: the rise of modern Indian leadership
  Political economy and tribal natural resources: resource management
  Indian gaming in the West: Indian entrepreneurship and modern political economy
  Sacred land returns and repatriation: power of federal Indian law.