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Continuing Identity: Laguna Pueblo Railroaders in Richmond, California

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kurt M. Peters
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, 1998, pp. 187-198
Shows how declining agricultural results forced people to look at other means of survival, how the arrival of railroading provided the alternative employment opportunity needed, and how this all led to the departure of many Laguna to distant areas as wage laborers.
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Santa Fe Indian Camp, House 21, Richmond, California: Persistence of Identity among Laguna Pueblo Railroad Laborers, 1945–1982

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kurt Peters
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 3, 1995, pp. 33-70
Looks at the historical relationship between the Laguna Pueblo of New Mexico and the westward expansion of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroads, including the eventual removal of the Laguna Pueblo to Richmond, California.
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