Reimagining Indian Country: Native American Migration and Identity in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles

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227 Index Italic page numbers refer to illustrations and tables Abeita, J. M., 116 Acoma Pueblo Indians, 21, 29 Act for the Relief of the Mission Indians of 1891, 13 Adair Air Force Station, 136 Adamson, Wanda Big Canoe, 139 Adult Vocational Training (AVT), 51, 61, 66; men’s training, 49, 57–58, 64; numbers participating in, 53; women and, 56–57. See also Federal relocation program African Americans, 16, 20, 76, 77, 78, 132–33 Agua Caliente Indians, 23, 24 AiResearch Company, 93, 95 Alcatraz Island occupation, 126, 129, 134, 139, 140, 141 Alcohol, 54, 65, 85, 86–91; alcoholism treatment and, 86, 98, 113, 129, 143–46, 152, 153, 162 Alcoholics Anonymous, 113, 143, 145, 152 Allen, Francis, 66 All-Indian Sports Leagues, 119 Ambrose, Francene, 160 American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), 114–15, 124 American Indian Art Shop, Los Angeles, 45 American Indian Association of Portland, 161 American Indian Athletic Association (AIAA), 119–21, 125, 145, 152, 165 American Indian Complete Count Committee of Los Angeles and Orange Counties, 157 American Indian Cultural Center (AICC), UCLA, 148 American Indian Day, 109–10. See also Indian Day American Indian Education Commission (AIEC), 147–48 American Indian Education Program of Oakland Public Schools, 99 American Indian Free Clinic, 69, 145 American Indian Higher Education Consortium, 99 American Indian Movement (AIM), 135, 136, 137, 139, 140, 146; Alcatraz Island occupation and, 126, 129, 134, 141. See also Red Power movement American Indian Progressive Association (AIPA), Los Angeles, 105–8, 131 American Indian Resource Center (AIRC), Los Angeles, 155–56 American Indians. See Native Americans 228 Index American Indian Student Association, UCLA, 149 American Indian Study Center, Baltimore, 132 Americanization, 50–51, 74; of Native Americans, 50, 51, 59–61, 62 Amos, Glenna, 66, 72, 119–20, 125, 147, 159–60 Amos, Will, 66 Angelo, Nellie, 107 Anishinaabe Indians, 135 Anpo, 143, 144 Apache Indians, 16, 39, 98 Arapaho Indians, 38 Arizona, 15, 16, 19, 21, 24, 27, 39, 81, 150 Arkansas, 21, 24 Arquero, J. S., 116 Askenette, Steve, 143 Assimilation, 50, 52. See also Americanization Bad Horse, Mahonta, 63–64, 140 Banks, Dennis, 135 Banks, Mark, 135 Bartlett, Mira Frye, 111, 124 Battle of the Red Men, The (movie, 1912), 37 Bear Don’t Walk, Marjorie, 162 Becenti, Bessie, 80 Becenti, Richard, 80 Beck, Dale, 82 Begay, Andrew, 80 Begay, Bobby, 116, 117 Begay, George, 67–68 Bergie, Joe, 26 Bernstine, Daniel, 160 Berryhill, Peggy, 91–92 Billedeaux, Lincoln, 151 Birth of a Nation (movie, 1915), 39 Bison 101, 37, 39 Bison Life Motion Pictures Company, 37 Blackfeet Indians, 44, 98, 112–13, 136, 137, 149 Blackfeet Reservation, 137, 149, 168 Bowen, Carole, 85 Boyer, LaNada, 66 Bradley, Tom, 86 Brando, Marlon, 135 British Columbia, 36, 62 Brown, H., 85, 86 Brown, Jerry, 95 Bruner, Charles, 38–39 Bulin, Amabel, 110 Burbee, Carolina, 23 Burbee, Charles, 23 Bureau of American Ethnology, 40 Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), 59, 90, 151; Chicago office, 60, 61, 69, 70, 137; Native American activism and, 136, 137; relocation services, 1, 49–74, 57, 58, 82. See also Adult Vocational Training; Los Angeles Field Relocation Office; Native American boarding schools; Portland Area Office of BIA Bush, George W., 162 Caddo Indians, 91, 163 Cahuilla Indians, 13, 17, 24, 133, 164 Cahuilla Reservation, 14, 17 California Indian Rights Association, 110 California Savings and Loan, 95 California State Health Department, 142 California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), 148 California State University, Los Angeles, 88, 139 California Urban Indian Health Council, 142 Campadona, Juana, 21 Campbell, Noel, 83 Campo Reservation, 15, 17 Canada, 36, 62, 95 Carlisle Indian School, 26, 40, 41, 107 Cash, Warren, 110 Castillo, Edward D., 133, 134 229 Index Chappell, Julia, 23 Charge of the Light Brigade (movie, 1936), 40 Charley, Fern, 81 Charley, Priscilla, 81 Chemawa Indian School, 25, 67, 136 Cherokee Indians, 21–22, 40, 66, 119, 147, 159, 164 Cheyenne Indians, 31, 38, 40, 46, 137, 140 Chicago, 40, 61, 81, 84, 92, 110, 162; Indian activism and, 137, 146; Indian population of, 79, 158; Indian poverty and, 87–88, 90, 159; relocation program and, 60, 61, 65, 69, 70, 82 Chicano Indian Studies Center of Oregon (CISCO), 136–37 Chiloquin, Melvin, 144–45 Chippewa Indians, 69, 107, 110, 131 Choctaw Indians, 66 Chrysler Corporation, 75, 82 Chumash Indians, 12, 85, 90, 145 Churches, 60–61, 113 Church Federation of Greater Chicago, 60, 61 Clark, Christopher, 15 Cleveland...