Introduction. Suburban Indians : family, identity, and homeownership -- Land of loss and survival : the Homestead Act of 1862 and the U.S. Dakota War -- Pivotal policies : the creation of the Federal Housing Administration and the Indian Reorganization Act -- ́We must do this ourselveś: American Indians and the American dream in the Twin Cities -- Intersections of responsibility : federal housing policy, Indian policy, and Minneapolis’s Little Earth housing complex -- Indian homes and Indian loans : suburban Indians and the Section 184 Indian Home Loan Guarantee Program -- Conclusion. Racializing public space : American Indian homelessness as houselessness and exclusion.
Summary:
"Examining the long history of urbanization and suburbanization of Indian communities in Minnesota, American Indians and the American Dream investigates the ways American Indians accessed homeownership, working with and against federal policy, underscoring American Indian peoples' unequal and exclusionary access to the way of life known as the American dream"-- Provided by publisher.
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