Mediating Indianness Grade Nine-Ten-Eleven-Twelve and the role of ritual

and the role of ritual during periods of overwhelming colonialism

Jana-Rae Yerxa

hereditary chief Umeek creates a new philosophical foundation for building more equitable and sustainable communities

and truth and reconciliation

This book was written through an alliance between the Mi'gmaq of Northern Gesp'gewa'gi (Gaspe Peninsula)

Mediating Indianness Grade Nine-Ten-Eleven-Twelve and the role of ritualMediating Indianness investigates a wide range of media including print, film, theatre, ritual dance, music, recorded interviews, photography, and treaty rhetoric that have been used in exploitative, informative, educative, sustaining, protesting, or entertaining ways to negotiate Native American identities and images. The selection of the term Indianness is deliberate. It points to the intricate construction of ethnicity as filtered through media,