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category: Social Science
published: Apr 2013
ISBN:9780774824644
publisher: UBC Press

Indigenous in the City

Contemporary Identities and Cultural Innovation

edited by Evelyn Peters & Chris Andersen

tagged: native american studies, urban
Description

Research on Indigenous issues rarely focuses on life in major metropolitan centres. Instead, there is a tendency to frame rural locations as emblematic of authentic or “real” Indigeneity. While such a perspective may support Indigenous struggles for territory and recognition, it fails to account for large swaths of contemporary Indigenous realities, including the increased presence of Indigenous people in cities. The contributors to this volume explore the implications of urbanization on the production of distinctive Indigenous identities in Canada, the US, New Zealand, and Australia. In doing so, they demonstrate the resilience, creativity, and complexity of the urban Indigenous presence.

About the Authors

Evelyn Peters


Chris Andersen is a professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and the Editor of Aboriginal Policy Studies. He is the author of ?Métis?: Race, Recognition and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood.


Contributor Notes

Evelyn Peters is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Urban and Inner City Studies at the University of Winnipeg.

 

Chris Andersen is an associate professor and director of the Rupertsland Centre for Métis Research in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta.

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