1956
Legislation / relocationBook sources
Indian adult vocational training and relocation policy
United States; Native people moving to cities
Federal policy promoted urban relocation and employment training while reducing support for reservation life. Inadequate jobs and services often left migrants vulnerable, although urban communities also became centers of Indigenous organizing.
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Context / qualification
The broader relocation program preceded the 1956 act; movement also involved individual decisions and community-building.
Sources
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 9