Mediating Indianness Grade Nine-Ten-Eleven-Twelve in defense of Métis and

in defense of Métis and other minority rights

Reading Level: 5

and truth and reconciliation

hereditary chief Umeek creates a new philosophical foundation for building more equitable and sustainable communities

and the role of ritual during periods of overwhelming colonialism

Mediating Indianness Grade Nine-Ten-Eleven-Twelve in defense of Métis andMediating Indianness investigates a wide range of media including print, film, theatre, ritual dance, music, recorded interviews, photography, and treaty rhetoric that have been used in exploitative, informative, educative, sustaining, protesting, or entertaining ways to negotiate Native American identities and images. The selection of the term Indianness is deliberate. It points to the intricate construction of ethnicity as filtered through media,