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

Author/creator Lawrence, Bonita
Format Book
Publication InfoLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2004.
Descriptionxviii, 303 pages ; 22 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Urban Indians--North America. --Canada.
Indians of North America--Mixed descent. --Canada.
Indians of North America--Tribal citizenship. --Canada.
Canada--Race relations.
Canada--Social policy.
Canada--Politics and government.

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [291]-300) and index.
LCCN 2003023517
ISBN0803229526 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0803280378 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks E78.C2 L386 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold