Elder Brother and the Law of the People : Contemporary Kinship and Cowessess First Nation Creation have called upon key figures have called upon key figures to explore the experiences of urban Indigenous modernity Gerald Silliker Pisim Maskwa He reveals how these tradition inspired practices act to undermine legal and scholarly definitions of “Indian” and counter the perception that First Nations people have internalized such classifications He presents Cowessess’s successful negotiation of the 1996 Treaty Land Agreement and their high inclusion rate of new “Bill C31s” as evidence of the persistence of historical kinship values and their continuing role as the central unifying factor for band membership