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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lawrence, Bonita
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2004]
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Urban residence > 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.
Table of 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.