Indigenous Migration: Displacement and Diaspora in the Americas:
In the 1950s, the U.S. government's Urban Indian Relocation Act instigated a steady migration of Native peoples to major metropolitan cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco. At the same time, indigenous migrants from Mexico came to the U.S. to work as guest workers through the U.S. Bracero Program (1942-1964). This course takes indigenous mobility as a starting point to examine how the categories of the "migrant" and "indigeneity" are produced and contested across the Americas. By focusing on contemporary case studies of indigenous migration in Latin America, Canada, and the United States, we examine how indigeneity travels (or not) across racial, gender, class, and sexual divides. The course concludes by drawing connections to global indigenous experiences.
*Jesus Barraza and Nancy Hernandez. "Indian Land," 2004. See http://dignidadrebelde.com/
**Dylan Miner, "Native Kids Ride Bikes," See https://news.artnet.com/opinion/artprize-2015-michigan-critics-picks-336477
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