Title Fractured homeland : federal recognition and Algonquin identity in Ontario / Bonita Lawrence

Published Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 327 pages) : illustrations Contents Part 1: Algonquin Survival and Resurgence -- Diplomacy, Resistance, and Dispossession -- The Fracturing of the Algonquin Homeland -- Aboriginal Title and the Comprehensive Claims Process -- The Algonquin Land Claim -- Reclaiming Algonquin Identity -- Part 2: The Mississippi, Rideau, and Lower Madawaska River Watersheds -- The Development of Ardoch Algonquin First Nation -- The Effect of the Land Claim in This Region -- Uranium Resistance: Defending the Land -- Part 3: The Bonnechere and Petawawa River Watersheds -- The Bonnechere Communities and Greater Golden Lake -- Perspectives from Pikwakanagan -- Part 4: The Upper Madawaska and York River Watersheds -- Whitney, Madawaska, and Sabine -- The People of Kijicho Manitou: Baptiste Lake and Bancroft -- Part 5: The Kiji Sibi -- From Mattawa to Ottawa -- The Ottawa River Communities -- Conclusion: Algonquin Identity and Nationhood Summary "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."--Publisher's website Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Algonquin Indians -- Ontario -- Claims Algonquin Indians -- Ontario -- Ethnic identity Algonquin Indians -- Government policy -- Canada Algonquin Indians -- Ontario -- Interviews Algonquin Indians -- Ontario -- History Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Government relations HISTORY -- Canada -- General. Indigenous peoples -- Government relations Algonquin Indians Algonkin Grundeigentum Ethnische Identität Canada Ontario Ontario Genre/Form Electronic books Interviews History Claims Form Electronic book LC no. cn2011907993 ISBN 0774822899 9780774822893 0774822872 9780774822879

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