American Indians and the American Dream Audiobook

Nearly seven out of ten American Indians live in urban areas yet studies of urban Indian experiences remain scant Studies of suburban Natives are even more rare Todays suburban Natives the fastestgrowing American Indian demographic highlight the tensions within federal policies working in tandem to move and house differing groups of people in very different residential locations In American Indians and the American Dream Kasey R Keeler examines the long history of urbanization and suburbanization of Indian communities in Minnesota

American Indians and the American Dream analyzes the dispossession of Indian land property rights and patterns of home ownership through programs and policies that sought to move communities away from their traditional homelands to reservations and later to urban and suburban areas Keeler begins this analysis with the Homestead Act of 1862 then shifts to the Indian Reorganization Act in the early twentieth century the creation of Little Earth in Minneapolis and Indian homeownership during the housing bubble of the early 2000s

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