Distorted Descent Girls Mima Kapches (Royal Ontario Museum)

Mima Kapches (Royal Ontario Museum)

traditional storytelling and education

and Indigenous peoples' right to benefit from the development of their lands and resources

Jeanette Waegemakers Schiff

has been caught up over the years in Jeremy's world of drugs

Distorted Descent Girls Mima Kapches (Royal Ontario Museum)In Distorted Descent: White Claims of Indigenous Identity, Darryl Leroux explores the specifics of a social phenomena a shifting of identity where otherwise white, French descendants in Canada identity as Indigenous based on their Indigenous ancestors born between 300 and 375 years ago and representing about 200 000 people. This book is therefore not about multi generational efforts of reconnecting with Indigenous kin and or reclaiming an Indigenous