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Beck, David R. M.

 
9781496234728: Unfair Labor?: American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago
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ISBN 10: 1496234723 ISBN 13: 9781496234728
Editorial: University of Nebraska Press, 2023

Sinopsis

Unfair Labor? is the first book to explore the economic impact of Native Americans who participated in the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago. By the late nineteenth century, tribal economic systems across the Americas were decimated, and tribal members were desperate to find ways to support their families and control their own labor. As U.S. federal policies stymied economic development in tribal communities, individual Indians found creative new ways to make a living by participating in the cash economy. Before and during the exposition, American Indians played an astonishingly broad role in both the creation and the collection of materials for the fair, and in a variety of jobs on and off the fairgrounds.

While anthropologists portrayed Indians as a remembrance of the past, the hundreds of Native Americans who participated were carving out new economic pathways. Unfair Labor? breaks new ground by telling the stories of individual laborers at the fair, uncovering the roles that Indians played in the changing economic conditions of tribal peoples, and redefining their place in the American socioeconomic landscape.

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David R. M. Beck is an award-winning historian and a professor in the University of Illinois Department of History. He was previously a professor of Native American Studies at the University of Montana for more than two decades. Beck is the author of several books, including The Struggle for Self Determination: History of the Menominee Indians since 1854 (Nebraska, 2005) and is the coauthor with Rosalyn LaPier of City Indian: Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893–1934 (Nebraska, 2015).

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Editorial
University of Nebraska Press
Año de publicación
2023
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1496234723
ISBN 13 
9781496234728
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Número de páginas
332
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4831 GR
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9781496206831: Unfair Labor?: American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago

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ISBN 10:  1496206835 ISBN 13:  9781496206831
Editorial: University of Nebraska Press, 2019
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