Distorted Descent Plains Cree after fifteen years in the

after fifteen years in the Canadian Forces

traditional dwellings

but always controls him

Real change is possible if the focus can be shifted from piecemeal legal and political disputes to the development of an intercultural ethic based on trust

Using previously unreleased government documents accessed during his work for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples

Distorted Descent Plains Cree after fifteen years in theIn 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