Pamela D. Palmater
Auteur de Beyond Blood: Rethinking Indigenous Identity
Œuvres de Pamela D. Palmater
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This is so important, as indigenous communities of the past did not require people to be related to members of the community in order to become a part of it. The narrow interpretations of indigeneity imposed by the Indian Act have caused problems for generations of people and have unfairly excluded people (particularly women) from their communities - a history thoroughly explored in this book. Palmater sets out an alternative approach to identity, based on kinship but also on community involvement and support.
What Palmater doesn't address in this book is the issue of Federal funding and its relationship to indigenous identity. In a way that is fine, because identity shouldn't be limited by financial considerations. But it seems that a more inclusive approach is seen as problematic by many indigenous communities as a result of the funding issue and this is something that would need to be resolved if Palmater's recommendations were to be adopted.
In places the book got a bit bogged down in legal arguments about the applicability of things like the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms - there was a bit too much constitutional law for a general reader, I thought. But that's just a minor gripe - I learnt a lot from this book.… (plus d'informations)