“Real” Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood

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Mixed-blood urban Native peoples in Canada are profoundly suffering from 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 take into account their identities and struggle to live to tell the tale in a world that, more ceaselessly than not, fails to recognize them.

In “Real” Indians and Others Lawrence draws at the first-person accounts of thirty Toronto residents of Native heritage, in addition to archival materials, sociological research, and her own urban Native heritage and experiences. She sheds light at the Canadian government’s efforts to define Native identity over time by the use 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 try 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 may reconcile the differences in experiences and distinct agendas of urban and reserve-based Native communities.

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