Chicago American Indian oral history project records 1982-1985.
Reel-to-reel and cassette tape recordings, and typed edited transcripts of twenty-three oral interviews with long-time American Indian residents of Chicago, conducted from late 1982 through 1984. Also a published index to the transcripts, an unpublished manuscript entitled "Native Voices in the City," and cassette tapes of the three public programs held to promote the project. Of varying length, the interviews document first contact with Chicago (mainly during World War II or just after); the BIA postwar urban relocation program; Indian veterans and military service; education in government, mission and public schools; employment, housing, health and social services, discrimination, and alcohol use in the city; the retention of cultural traditions and language; Indian community organizations and pow wows; the experiences of urbanized Indian children; memories of reservation life; and returning to the reservation in later years.