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Title: Indigenous Suburbs: Settler Colonialism, Housing Policy, and American Indians in Suburbia

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: This dissertation analyzes the suburbs of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota as historically Indian places and demonstrates the continuous residency of American Indians in suburbs. In order to uncover the indigenous history of the suburban Twin Cities, I use an interdisciplinary methodology that includes a demographic analysis of U.S. Census data, a close reading of historical archives, and auto-ethnography based on my personal experiences as a suburban Indian to challenge common narratives of suburbia and to underscore the participation of American Indian people in the processes of suburbanization. Part one of this dissertation focuses on the years between the end of the U.S.-Dakota War (1862) and the start of World War I. Here, I argue Indian people were engaged in the early development of Indian places into suburbs despite policies to remove Indian people and the growing number of non-Native settlers who eclipsed an Indian presence. In part two, I focus on the policies that shaped suburbia and Indian Country during the second half of the twentieth century. I examine the role . . .

Url: https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/199061

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Authors: Keeler, Kasey

Institution: University of Minnesota

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Topics: Other, Race and Ethnicity

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