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Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity Political Science & Social Justice "In this second edition ofDistorted Descent examines a social phenomenon that has taken off in the twenty first century: otherwise white, French descendant settlers in Canada shifting into a self defined "Indigenous" identity. This study is not about individuals who have been dispossessed by colonial policies, or the multi generational efforts to reconnect that occur in response. Rather, it is about white, French descendant people discovering an Indigenous ancestor born 300 to