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Author:

Lawrence, Bonita.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xviii, 303 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

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.

Notes:

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 -- 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.

ISBN:

9780803280373 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0803280378 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780803229525 (cloth : alk. paper)
0803229526 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53307792

LCCN:

2003023517

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)