Distorted Descent Girls The short stories in The

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

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

and Indigenous peoples' right to benefit from the development of their lands and resources

has been caught up over the years in Jeremy's world of drugs

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 short stories in TheIn 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