Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity

Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous IdentityDistorted Descent examines a social phenomenon that has taken off in the twenty first century: otherwise white, French descendant settlers in Canada shifting into a self defined Indigenous identity. This study is not about individuals who have been dispossessed by colonial policies, or the multi generational efforts to reconnect that occur in response. Rather, it is about white, French descendant people discovering an Indigenous ancestor born 300 to

Black Elk Speaks

But her interests are not limited to science

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and he depicts the astonishing success of the language program at Lac Courte Oreilles

and reincarnation

Geniusz teaches the ways she was taught—through stories

finding solace in her garden even as the farm is threatened first by drought and then by a predatory chemical company

by engaging in a Black culture

Born of Mohawk and Cayuga descent

/ Woecon kin de unyakupi do / We accept this responsibility you gave us

Giving Thanks is a special children's version of the Thanksgiving Address

the challenges of colonization have served to accentuate eldership in new ways