Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity traditional tales Sean Sherman and his team

Sean Sherman and his team remake indigenous cuisine and in doing so show us all a new way to relate to food

who often attended schools at great distances from their communities

Hopkins learned to read and write in an anglicized form of Dakota

" — Denise K

Aunty and Kookum bead

Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity traditional tales Sean Sherman and his teamDistorted Descent examines a social phenomenon that has taken off in the twenty first century: otherwise white, French descendant settlers in Canada shifting into a self defined Indigenous identity. This study is not about individuals who have been dispossessed by colonial policies, or the multi generational efforts to reconnect that occur in response. Rather, it is about white, French descendant people discovering an Indigenous ancestor born 300 to