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Book Review
| "Real" Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood. By Bonita Lawrence. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xviii + 303 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00, cloth; $29.95, paper.)
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Novelists, the fashion industry, and the U. S. Census have begun to embrace mixed race people and the ambiguities of identity in North America with admirable energy. So, too, have historians, in Bonita Lawrence's case fueled by the passion of personal experience. In Lawrence's view, the urgent quest for urban Native peoples of mixed heritage is to re-connect with Native bands on reserves and ultimately rebuild self-determined Indian nations in the interests of "our mutual empowerment" (p. 246). |
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