Indian Cities: Histories of Indigenous Urbanization biography and the promise of their

and the promise of their becoming

In tandem with other linguistic and narrative methods

" —Joy Harjo

C̓uumaʕas and miʕaat are central to the sacred food practices that have been a crucial part of the Indigenous community's efforts to enact food sovereignty

New questions followed her through college and into her twenties when she started her own family

Indian Cities: Histories of Indigenous Urbanization biography and the promise of theirFrom ancient metropolises like Pueblo Bonito and Tenochtitln to the twenty first century Oceti Sakowin encampment of NoDAPL water protectors, Native people have built and lived in cities a fact little noted in either urban or Indigenous histories. By foregrounding Indigenous peoples as city makers and city dwellers, as agents and subjects of urbanization, the essays in this volume simultaneously highlight the impact of Indigenous people on urban