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CITY & SOCIETY
Volume 28, Issue 1, Pages 74-98Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/ciso.12074
Keywords
Urban Aboriginals; Native Friendship Centres; Visibility; Citizenship; Indian Act; Cultural geography; Val-d'Or; Quebec; Canada
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The presence of First Nations, Inuit, and Metis people in the urban centres of Quebec ( Canada) is no longer simply the result of individual trajectories; it is also the result of collective and institutional initiatives. Aboriginal collective action is changing, and, as a consequence, new forms of Aboriginal citizenship are emerging, as well as new expressions of Aboriginal identity. These transformations have repercussions across the whole of Quebec society. With cultural territories being materialized-and Indigenous identities symbolized-in the cityscape, new conceptions of Quebecois citizenship and identity have emerged. Using the approaches of historical and cultural geography, we explore, firstly, the spatial dimensions of Indigeneity and of Canada's Indian policy. Secondly, we analyse two spaces of civic engagement that have emerged in the city of Val-d'Or-the Abinodjic Miguam Daycare and the Gabriel Commanda March Against Racism-as they relate to urban Aboriginal visibility and the co-construction of citizenship.
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