Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity

ISBN-13: 9780887558467 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 280 str.

Darryl LeRoux

Opis

Examines a twenty-first century social phenomenon in which white, French descendant settlers in Canada shift into a self-defined 'Indigenous' identity, bringing to light to how these claims are then used politically to oppose actual, living Indigenous peoples.

Spis treści

• Introduction: Self-Indigigenization in the Twenty-First Century
• Chapter 1 Lineal Descent in an Age of Reconciliation
• Chapter 2 Aspirational Descent: Creating an Indigenous Woman Ancestor
• Chapter 3 Lateral Descent: Reconstructing Indigeneity in the Past
• Chapter 4 After Powley: Anti- Indigenous Activism and Becoming Métis in Two Regions of Quebec
• Chapter 5 The Largest Self-Identified Métis Organization in Canada: The Métis Nation of the Rising Sun
• Conclusion