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Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of personal

and will empower young people as they struggle with a changing world

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Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity traditional tales and from award-winning cheesemakers toDistorted 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