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Being homeless in one's homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenouspeoples from their lands. The legacy of that dispossession and related attempts at assimilation that disrupted Indigenous practices, languages, and cultures-including patterns of housing and land use-can be seen today in the disproportionate number of Indigenous people affected by homelessness in both rural and urban settings. Essays in this collection explore the meaning and scope of Indigenous homelessness in the Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. They argue that effective policy and support programs aimed at relieving Indigenous homelessness must be rooted in Indigenous conceptions of home, land, and kinship, and cannot ignore the context of systemic inequality, institutionalization, landlessness, among other things, that stem from a history of colonialism. Indigenous Homelessness: Perspectives from Canada, New Zealand and Australia provides a comprehensive exploration of the Indigenous experience of homelessness. It testifies to ongoing cultural resilience and lays the groundwork for practices and policies designed to better address the conditions that lead to homelessness among Indigenous peoples.

Research on Indigenous issues rarely focuses on life in major
metropolitan centres. Instead, there is a tendency to frame rural and
remote locations as emblematic of authentic or "real"
Indigeneity and, as such, central to the survival of Indigenous
cultures and societies. While such a perspective may support Indigenous
struggles for territory and recognition as distinct peoples, it fails
to account for large swaths of contemporary Indigenous realities, not
the least of which is the increased presence of Indigenous people and
communities in cities.

The chapters in this volume explore the implications of urbanization
on the production of distinctive Indigenous identities in Canada, the
United States, New Zealand, and Australia. The volume editors,
both lead researchers in their fields, have called upon key figures to
explore the experiences of urban Indigenous modernity, utilizing an
interdisciplinary mix of methods, including ethnography, statistical
analysis, archival research, and discourse analysis.

Throughout the twentieth century, urban locales have been too often
regarded as places were Indigenous culture goes to die. This book
argues otherwise in its demonstration of the resilience, creativity,
and complexity of the urban Indigenous presence, both in Canada and
internationally.

Evelyn Peters is a professor and Canada Research
Chair in Urban and Inner City Studies at the University of
Winnipeg.
Chris Andersen is an associate professor and director
of the Rupertsland Centre for Metis Research in the Faculty of Native
Studies at the University of Alberta."