Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity traditional tales Aunty and Kookum bead

Aunty and Kookum bead

Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of personal

Hopkins learned to read and write in an anglicized form of Dakota

and in English translation to create an invaluable resource for learning this cherished language

who often attended schools at great distances from their communities

Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity traditional tales Aunty and Kookum beadDistorted Descent examines a social phenomenon that has taken off in the twenty first century: otherwise white, French descendant settlers in Canada shifting into a self defined Indigenous identity. This study is not about individuals who have been dispossessed by colonial policies, or the multi generational efforts to reconnect that occur in response. Rather, it is about white, French descendant people discovering an Indigenous ancestor born 300 to