No Home in a Homeland: Indigenous Peoples and Homelessness in the Canadian North, by Julia Christensen

摘要

No Home in a Homeland represents a significant, unique, and timely contribution to the literature on homelessness experienced by Indigenous people in the Canadian North. Christensen’s main goal in the book is to demonstrate the effects of colonial policies on Indigenous cultures, among them an increase in visible homelessness in the 1990s. Her research concentrates on the two largest population centres in the Northwest Territories: Yellowknife and Inuvik. The research, which spanned more than a decade, included 87 in-depth interviews and six focus groups with homeless Indigenous men and women, and 55 in-depth interviews with social and health service providers.