GENDERING INDIANNESS IN THE COLONIAL ENCOUNTER

The nation-building process in Canada began to accelerate between 1781 and 1830, in what is now Southern Ontario, when the British began to real- ize the necessity of bringing in settlers on the lands where previously they had engaged in the fur trade, to secure the territory they claimed against the threat of American expansion. Settlement of the area was only made possible as individual Anishinaabe (Ojibway) bands were gradually induced to cede, in small pack- ages, the land immediately north of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie to the British. Many of these land surren- ders were framed as peace treaties, to ensure that the British would be allies to the Ojibway against the

CHAPTER 34

Regulating Native Identity by Gender

Bonita Lawrence

Bonita Lawrence (Mi’kmaw) is an associate professor in the Department of Equity Studies at York University. She is a founding member of the undergraduate program in Multicultural and Indigenous Studies, and of the upcoming graduate program in Indigenous Thought. Her research focuses primarily on urban, non-status, and Métis identities, federally unrecognized Aboriginal communities, Aboriginal peoples and the criminal justice system, and Indigenous nationhood and justice. Her well-known book “Real” Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nation- hood from which the following chapter is taken, explores many of these themes.

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