A study of the significant role that Indigenous activists living in Chicago played in shaping local and national public perception of Native Americans in the early twentieth century.
 

List of Photographs

Preface and Acknowledgments

1. American Indians and Chicago in the Nineteenth Century

2. The World Comes to Chicago (The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition)

3. Indian Professionals in the City

4. Indian Encampments and Entertainments

5. The Indian Fellowship League

6. Emerging Organizations

7. Definitions of Indianness at the Century of Progress

8. Self-Determination

Appendix of Tables

1. Chicago Population and American Indian Population in Chicago, 1830–2010

2. Chicago Indians in the 1920 Census

3. Chicago Indians in the 1930 Census

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Rosalyn R. LaPier (Blackfeet/Métis) is an associate professor in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Montana. She is the author of Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet (Nebraska, 2017). David R. M. Beck is a professor of Native American studies at the University of Montana. He is the author of several books, including Unfair Labor? American Indians and the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago (Nebraska, 2019) and The Struggle for Self-Determination: History of the Menominee Indian History since 1854 (Nebraska, 2005).