"Real" Indians and others : mixed-blood urban Native peoples and Indigenous nationhood / Bonita Lawrence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lawrence, Bonita, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban Indigenous peoples--Canada.

Urban Indigenous peoples.

Indians of North America--Mixed descent--Canada.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Tribal citizenship--Canada.

Canada--Race relations.

Canada.

Canada--Social policy.

Canada--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 303 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; London, [England] : University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mixed-blood urban Native peoples in Canada are profoundly affected by federal legislation that divides Aboriginal peoples into different legal categories. In this pathfinding book, Bonita Lawrence reveals 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. In "Real" Indians and Others Lawrence draws on the first-person accounts of thirty Toronto residents of Native heritage, as well as archival materials, sociological research, and her own urban Native heritage and experiences. She sheds light on the Canadian government's efforts to define Native identity through the years by means of the Indian Act and shows how residential schooling, the loss of official Indian status, and adoption have affected Native identity. Lawrence looks at how Natives with "Indian status" react and respond to "nonstatus" Natives and how federally recognized Native peoples attempt to impose an identity on urban Natives. Drawing on her interviews with urban Natives, she describes the devastating loss of community that has resulted from identity legislation and how urban Native peoples have wrestled with their past and current identities. Lawrence also addresses the future and explores the forms of nation building that can reconcile the differences in experiences and distinct agendas of urban and reserve-based Native communities.

Contents:

From sovereign nations to "a vanishing race"

Regulating Native identity by gender

Reconfiguring colonial gender relations under Bill C-31

Metis 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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786610423682

9781280423680

1280423684

9780803204195

0803204191

OCLC:

55627174