"Real" Indians and others mixed-blood urban Native peoples and indigenous nationhood
Bonita Lawrence (Creator)
Mixed-blood urban Native peoples in Canada are profoundly affected by federal legislation that divides Aboriginal peoples into different legal categories. This work shows the ways in which mixed-blood urban Natives understand their identities and struggle to survive in a world that, more often than not, fails to recognize them.
xviii, 303 p. 22 cm.
9780803280373, 9780803229525, 0803280378, 0803229526
1374372703
From sovereign nations to "a vanishing race"
Regulating Native identity by gender
Reconfiguring colonial gender relations under Bill C-31
Métis identity, the Indian Act, and the numbered treaties
Killing the Indian to save the child
Urban responses to a heritage of violence
Negotiating an urban mixed-blood Native identity
Maintaining an urban Native community
Racial identity in white society
Band membership and urban identity
Indian status and entitlement
Mixed-blood urban Native people and the rebuilding of indigenous nations
From sovereign nations to "a vanishing race" -- Regulating Native identity by gender -- Reconfiguring colonial gender relations under Bill C-31 -- Métis identity, the Indian Act, and the numbered treaties -- Killing the Indian to save the child -- Urban responses to a heritage of violence -- Negotiating an urban mixed-blood Native identity -- Maintaining an urban Native community -- Racial identity in white society -- Band membership and urban identity -- Indian status and entitlement -- Mixed-blood urban Native people and the rebuilding of indigenous nations