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History Native American

Fractured Homeland

Federal Recognition and Algonquin Identity in Ontario

by (author) Bonita Lawrence

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jun 2012
Category
Native American, General, General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774822879
    Publish Date
    Jun 2012
    List Price
    $90.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774822886
    Publish Date
    Jan 2013
    List Price
    $34.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774822893
    Publish Date
    Jun 2012
    List Price
    $34.95

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Description

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 nationhood.

About the author

Awards

  • Short-listed, Canada Prize in the Social Sciences, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Contributor Notes

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).

Editorial Reviews

A good case study of a people that have been too rarely discussed and too often misunderstood. Recommended.

CHOICE, Vol. 50 No. 05