Distorted Descent Girls The book reflects the wish

The book reflects the wish to move beyond the stoical

He also tackles the complicated issue of identity and details recent efforts and successes in cultural preservation and language revitalization

Mima Kapches (Royal Ontario Museum)

The short stories in The Moon of Letting Go celebrate healing through modern day rituals that honour Richard Van Camp's Dogrib ancestry

The author has avoided using jargon and this makes the contribution more significant because the text will reach the wider community as well as the professional

Distorted Descent Girls The book reflects the wishIn Distorted Descent: White Claims of Indigenous Identity, Darryl Leroux explores the specifics of a social phenomena a shifting of identity where otherwise white, French descendants in Canada identity as Indigenous based on their Indigenous ancestors born between 300 and 375 years ago and representing about 200 000 people. This book is therefore not about multi generational efforts of reconnecting with Indigenous kin and or reclaiming an Indigenous