Fractured Homeland - Algonquins' identity and nationhood

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Book Launch of Fractured Homeland:
Federal Recognition and Algonquin Identity in Ontario

Featuring author Bonita Lawrence,
Bob Majaury (Ottawa Algonquins), Daniel Bernard Amikwabe (Algonquin Union) & other speakers!

Please invite your friends!

Monday August 13, 6:00pm-8:00pm

Minwaashin Lodge http://minlodge.com/index.cfm
424 Catherine St (2nd floor)
Ottawa, Unceded Algonquin Territory

Free admission; copies of the book will be available for purchase.

Hosted by Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement Ottawa (IPSMO),
co-sponsored by Minwaashin Lodge and Octopus Books.

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Fractured Homeland is about non-status Algonquins in Ontario — their
diverse struggles around identity and nationhood — set against the backdrop
of the Algonquin comprehensive land claim

About the author: Bonita Lawrence (Mi’kmaw) teaches Indigenous Studies at
York University in Toronto. She is the author of “Real” Indians and Others:
Mixed-Blood Urban Native People and Indigenous Nationhood.

More about the book:
In 1992, the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan, the only
federally recognized Algonquin reserve in Ontario, launched a comprehensive
land claim. The claim drew attention to the reality that two-thirds of
Algonquins in Canada have never been recognized as Indian, and have
therefore had to struggle to reassert jurisdiction over their traditional
lands.

Fractured Homeland is Bonita Lawrence’s stirring account of the Algonquins’
twenty-year struggle for identity and nationhood despite the imposition of
a provincial boundary that divided them across two provinces, and the
Indian Act, which denied federal recognition to two-thirds of Algonquins.
Drawing on interviews with Algonquins across the Ottawa River watershed,
Lawrence voices the concerns of federally unrecognized Algonquins in
Ontario, whose ancestors survived land theft and the denial of their rights
as Algonquins, and whose family histories are reflected in the land. The
land claim not only forced many of these people to struggle with questions
of identity, it also heightened divisions as those who launched the claim
failed to develop a more inclusive vision of Algonquinness.

This path-breaking exploration of how a comprehensive claims process can
fracture the search for nationhood among First Nations also reveals how
federally unrecognized Algonquin managed to hold onto a distinct sense of
identity, despite centuries of disruption by settlers and the state.

For a sample Chapter:
http://www.ubcpress.ca/books/pdf/chapte ... meland.pdf


Also
August 14: Political Prisoners, the G20 and Anti-Colonial Resistance
from Canada to Palestine including speakers Nahla Abdo, Byron Sonne and
Ryan Rainville

For location and details: https://www.facebook.com/events/448803501807240