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ORFORD, EMILY-JANE HILLS UKULELE YUKON
Ottawa, ON, Balco Publishing Consultants 2006, 1st edition, wrappers. Ill.: black-and-white photographs. Slight shelf wear; else near fine condition. Slim 8vo, pp. 69. ISBN 1897072783 ¶ A somewhat sappy tale of Metis and Indian children set in Canada's north, in which the author incorrectly identifies the Metis as "First Nations", apparently forgetting that the Europeans were in British North America before the Metis were even conceived of (literally). The 1982 Constitution Act of Canada identifies Aboriginal people (commonly called Indians) as "First Nations" who, together with the Inuit and Metis are declared by the Act to be indigenous people. However, this conjunction, forced upon the country by a Liberal government, was done more as a political sop than as a recognition of a racially-appropriate right. Metis, after all, are mixed-blood people who came about through the relations between early French and English explorers, fur traders, and government officials with the aboriginal population. It hardly follows, therefore, that such offspring could be held to have preceded their forebears (Europeans). One might just as well, therefore, conjoin Europeans with "First Nations" and the Inuit as indigenous people, relegating the Metis to (?) Second Nations status; which is where this somewhat bizarre racial classification seems to now pigeon-hole Europeans.
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