Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities

Transformations and Continuities

Heather A. Howard, Craig Proulx, Heather A. Howard, Craig Proulx

• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9781554582600
• eBook ISBN: 9781554583140
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Cultural & Social Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

Since the 1970s, 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 one 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 Aboriginal communities; they draw on extensive ethnographic research on and by Aboriginal people and their own lived experiences.

The interdisciplinary studies of urban Aboriginal community and identity collected in this volume offer narratives of unique experiences and aspects of urban Aboriginal life. They provide innovative perspectives on cultural transformation and continuity and demonstrate how comparative examinations of the diversity within and across urban Aboriginal experiences contribute to broader understandings of the relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the Canadian state and to theoretical debates about power dynamics in the production of community and in processes of identity formation.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Copyright
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• 1 - Transformations and Continuities An Introduction
• 2 - Urban Life Reflections of a Middle-Class Indian
• 3 - Nomadic Legacies and Contemporary Decision-Making Strategies between Reserve and City
• 4 - The Papaschase Band Building Awareness and Community in the City of Edmonton
• 5 - “Regaining the childhood I should have had” The Transformation of Inuit Identities, Institutions, and Community in Ottawa
• 6 - The Friendship Centre Native People and the Organization of Community in Cities
• 7 - Neoliberalism and the Urban Aboriginal Experience A Casino Rama Case Study
• 8 - Challenges to and Successes in Urban Aboriginal Education in Canada A Case Study of Wiingashk Secondary School
• 9 - A Critical Discourse Analysis of John Stackhouse’s “Welcome to Harlem on the Prairies”
• 10 - Urban Aboriginal Gangs and Street Sociality in the Canadian West Places, Performances, and Predicaments of Transition
• 11 - “Why Is My People Sleeping?” First Nations Hip Hop between the Rez and the City
• 12 - Plains Indian Ways to Inter-Tribal Cultural Healing in Vancouver
• Contributors
• Index
• Back cover