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Book SynopsisMixed-blood urban Native peoples in Canada are profoundly affected by federal legislation that divides Aboriginal peoples into different legal categories. This work shows the ways in which mixed-blood urban Natives understand their identities and struggle to survive in a world that, more often than not, fails to recognize them.
Trade Review“What is an Indian? What does it mean to be Indian? These are the questions Lawrence seeks to answer in this path-breaking study.”—Todd Leahy,
Journal of the West"This valuable. . . . Book makes relentlessly clear that Canadians of mixed heritage have fared little better than mixed-race Americans in creating political or personal identities."—Beth LaDow,
Western Historical Quarterly"A participant-scholar who engaged in this dynamic study through her own personal involvement as an urban Indian, Lawrence, who currently teaches at Queens University, combined a rigorous interview process that included thirty mixed-blood Natives living in Toronto with solid secondary research to create a book that proves far more ambitious than the title might indicate."—Margaret Connell Szasz,
American Review of Canadian Studies
