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Bonita Lawrence - Fractured Homeland: Federal Recognition and Algonquin Identity in Ontario - 9780774822879 - V9780774822879
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Fractured Homeland: Federal Recognition and Algonquin Identity in Ontario

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Description for Fractured Homeland: Federal Recognition and Algonquin Identity in Ontario Hardback. An examination of the struggle for identity and nationhood among non-status Algonquin during the negotiation of a major comprehensive land claim. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, maps, port. BIC Classification: 1KBCO; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 612.

In 1992, the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan, the only federally recognized Algonquin reserve in Ontario, launched a comprehensive land claim. The action not only drew attention to the fact that Canada had acquired Algonquin land without negotiating a treaty, but it also focused attention on the two-thirds of Algonquins who have never been recognized as Indian. Fractured Homeland is Bonita Lawrence’s stirring account of how the claim forced federally unrecognized Algonquin in Ontario to confront both the issue of their own identity and the failure of Algonquin leaders – who launched the claim – to develop a more inclusive vision of ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774822879
SKU
V9780774822879
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About Bonita Lawrence
Bonita Lawrence (Mi’kmaw) teaches Indigenous studies at York University. She is the author of “Real” Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native People and Indigenous Nationhood (2004).

Reviews for Fractured Homeland: Federal Recognition and Algonquin Identity in Ontario
A good case study of a people that have been too rarely discussed and too often misunderstood. Recommended.
CHOICE, Vol. 50 No. 05

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