Book Review: \u3ci\u3e The Urban Indian Experience in America\u3c/i\u3e by Donald L. Fixico

Donald Fixico\u27s study of urban Indians may seem at first to be a review of a well-known and well-documented period: the shift from reservation life to urban relocation as a result of the US government\u27s deliberate assimilationist policies of the 1950s. Surely the historical attitudes regarding reservation termination and urban relocation have been amply documented in the last half century. But Fixico takes us beyond the historical realities to an in-depth look at Indian life in urban America, focusing on the variety of concerns with which these populations have had to cope: economic viability; employment and financial stability; access to education; personal socialization; and the physiological and psychological consequences of relocation, namely alcoholism, disease, isolation, depression, and cultural disintegration