Since the 1970's, Aboriginal people have been more likely to live in Canadian cities than on reserves or in rural areas. Aboriginal rural-tourban migration and the development of urban Aboriginal communities represent two of the most significant shifts in the histories and cultures of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. The essays in Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities: Transformations and Continuities are from contributors directly engaged in urban Aboriginal communities; they draw on extensive ethnographic research on and by Aboriginal people and their own lived experiences.

Transformations and continuities : an introduction / Heather A. Howard and Craig Proulx -- Urban life : reflections of a middle-class Indian / David R. Newhouse -- Nomadic legacies and contemporary decision-making strategies between reserve and city / Regna Darnell -- The Papaschase band : building awareness and community in the city of Edmonton / Jaimy L. Miller -- "Regaining the childhood I should have had" : the transformation of Inuit identities, institutions, and community in Ottawa / Donna Patrick [and others] -- The friendship centre : native people and the organization of community in cities / Heather A. Howard -- Neoliberalism and the urban aboriginal experience : a Casino Rama case study / Darrel Manitowabi -- Challenges to and successes in urban aboriginal education in Canada : a case study of Wiingashk Secondary School / Sadie Donovan -- A critical discourse analysis of John Stackhouse's "Welcome to Harlem on the Prairies" / Craig Proulx -- Urban aboriginal gangs and street sociality in the Canadian West : places, performances, and predicaments of transition / Kathleen Buddle -- "Why is my people sleeping?" : First Nations hip hop between the rez and the city / Marianne Ignace -- Plains Indian ways to inter-tribal cultural healing in Vancouver / Lindy-Lou Flynn.