RECONCILING-A LIFELONG STRUGGLE TO BELONG- LARRY GRANT & SCOTT STEEDMAN

#indigenoushistory , #indigenous , A personal and historical story of identity, place, and belonging from a Musqueam-Chinese Elder caught between cultures It’s taken most of Larry Grant’s long life for his extraordinary heritage to be appreciated. He was born in a hop field outside Vancouver in 1936, the son of a Musqueam cultural leader and an immigrant from a village in Guangdong, China. In 1940, when the Indian agent discovered that their mother had married a non-status man, Larry and his two siblings were stripped of their status. With one stroke of the pen, they were disenfranchised—no longer recognized as Indigenou