Indian cities : histories of indigenous urbanization / edited by Kent Blansett, Cathleen D. Cahill, and Andrew Needham.

"This book is published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, and with the generous assistance of The McCasland Foundation, Duncan, Oklahoma."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Indian cities / Kent Blansett, Cathleen D. Cahill, and Andrew Needham -- "Others of a more ordinary quality" : Cherokee commoners in Charlestown during the winter of 1717 / Nathaniel Holly -- Communicating sovereignty in Balbancha : the performance of Native American diplomacy in early New Orleans / Daniel H. Usner -- From Manassas to Mankato : how the Civil War bled into the Indian wars / Ari Kelman -- Electric lights, tourist sights : gendering dispossession and colonial infrastructure at Niagara Falls / Mishuana R. Goeman -- Native Washington : indigenous histories, a federal landscape, and the making of the U.S. capital / C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa -- When the city comes to the Indian : Yavapai-Apache exodus and return to an urban Indian homelands, 1870s-1920s / Maurice Crandall -- Mni Luzahan and "our beautiful city" : indigenous resistance in the Black Hills up to 1937 / Elaine Marie Nelson -- Indigenizing Minneapolis : building American Indian community infrastructure in the mid-twentieth century / Sasha Maria Suarez -- there is no such thing as an urban Indian : Native American people living in Dallas / Douglas K. Miller -- Neeginan : the struggle to build an indigenous "enclave" in postwar Winnipeg / David Hugill -- NoDAPL encampments : twenty-first-century Indian city / Dana E. Powell -- "Building the perfect human to invade" : Dikos Ntsaaígíí-19 (COVID-19) from border towns to the Navajo Nation / Jennifer Denetdale.

"A collection of essays that explores the history of Indigenous peoples as city makers and city dwellers, showing how, from colonial times to the present day, Indigenous people have shaped and been shaped by urban spaces"-- Provided by publisher.