Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity

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Contents

Introduction: Self-Indigenization in the Twenty-First Century

Part One: The Mechanics of Descent

Chapter One: Lineal Descent and the Political Use of Indigenous Women Ancestors

Chapter Two: Aspirational Descent: Creating Indigenous Women Ancestors

Chapter Three: Lateral Descent: Remaking Family in the Past

Part Two: Race Shifting as Anti-Indigenous Politics

Chapter Four: After Powley: Anti-Indigenous Activism and Becoming "Métis" in Two Regions of Quebec

Chapter Five: The Largest Self-Identified "Métis" Organization in Quebec: The Métis Nation of the Rising Sun

Conclusion: White Claims to Indigenous Identity

Acknowledgements

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

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