Aboriginal peoples in Canadian cities transformations and continuities

Electronic Resource 2011

Since the 1970's, Aboriginal people have been more likely to live in Canadian cities than on reserves or in rural areas. Aboriginal rural-to-urban migration and the development of urban Aboriginal communities represent two of the most significant shifts in the histories and cultures of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. The essays in Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities: Transformations and Continuities are from contributors directly engaged in urban...

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9781554583454
9781554583140

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Electronic reproduction. Toronto Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2011 Available via World Wide Web

Contents:

Transformations and continuities : an introduction / Heather A. Howard and Craig Proulx
Urban life : reflections of a middle-class Indian / David R. Newhouse
Nomadic legacies and contemporary decision-making strategies between reserve and city / Regna Darnell
The Papaschase band : building awareness and community in the city of Edmonton / Jaimy L. Miller
"Regaining the childhood I should have had" : the transformation of Inuit identities, institutions, and community in Ottawa / Donna Patrick [and others]
The friendship centre : native people and the organization of community in cities / Heather A. Howard
Neoliberalism and the urban aboriginal experience : a Casino Rama case study / Darrel Manitowabi
Challenges to and successes in urban aboriginal education in Canada : a case study of Wiingashk Secondary School / Sadie Donovan
A critical discourse analysis of John Stackhouse's "Welcome to Harlem on the Prairies" / Craig Proulx
Urban aboriginal gangs and street sociality in the Canadian West : places, performances, and predicaments of transition / Kathleen Buddle
"Why is my people sleeping?" : First Nations hip hop between the rez and the city / Marianne Ignace
Plains Indian ways to inter-tribal cultural healing in Vancouver / Lindy-Lou Flynn

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3161371

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Howard-Bobiwash, Heather, 1966-
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