Colonialism And The Indigenous Present: An Interview With Bonita Lawrence

Colonialism And The Indigenous Present: An Interview With Bonita Lawrence Scott Rutherford, 2010   In this interview, a leading scholar of Indigeneity, Bonita Lawrence, discusses some of the crucial issues facing Native people in Canada today. She reflects on the denial of citizenship arising from the Indian Act’s definition of ‘Indianness’ — which, in Lawrence’s words, reduces cultural identity to racial identity. Also examined are the dilemmas of finding common ground between Indigenous...

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