Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-300) and index.
Contents:
From sovereign nations to "a vanishing race" -- Regulating Native identity by gender -- Reconfiguring colonial gender relations under Bill C-31 -- MeĢtis 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.
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