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.
Review Quotes: "As leaders and researchers all over the world begin to engage more fully with the question of Indigenous urbanization, this book creates an international frame of reference that will galvanize our community, contributing greatly to the advancement of knowledge in this field."
- Caroline Desbiens, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Historical Geography of the North, Department of Geography, Universite Laval