Indigenous peoples -- Canada, Métis 

Contents:
State Structures and imposed identities : the invention of "Indian" --
Ethnostatus distinctions in the Western Subarctic / James B. Waldram --
Indians, Metis, Native : some implications of special status / Noel Dyck --
The absurd little mouse : when Eskimos became Indians / Richard J. Diubaldo --
The reification of ethnicity and its political consequences in the North / Graham Watson --
The Metis, Non-status Indians and the new aboriginality, government influence on Native political alliances and identity / Joe Sawchuk --
Redbaiting and racism on our frontier : military expansion in Labrador and Quebec / Peter Armitage and John C. Kennedy --
Who are the Metis? / David Boisevert and Keith Turnbull --
Underground policy : an essay on identity and the Aboriginal victims of non-Aboriginal structures / Samuel W. Corrigan. Judicial preservation of ethnic group boundaries : the Iroquois case / Sally M. Weaver --
Sexual equality and Indian government : Bill C-31, an amendment to the Indian Act / Joyce Green --
Tribal traditions and European Western political ideologies / Menno Boldt and J. Anthony Long --
Internationalization : perspectives on an emerging direction in Aboriginal affairs / J. Rick Ponting --
Situation of Indigenous populations in the United States / Ward Churchill --
Federal Indian Identification Policy : a usurpation of indigenous sovereignty in North America / M. Annette Jaimes --
Aboriginal identity / Deirdre F. Jordan --
The Sami law [Saami] : a change in Norwegian government policy toward the Sami Minority? [Norway] / Oystein Steinlein.