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This article is a critical analysis of Métis author Maria Campbell's book, Halfbreed (1973). The author examines the sections in in which Campbell discusses her time as a survival sex worker in Vancouver. Campbell’s book engages stereotypes of degraded and sexualized Aboriginality in contemporary urban culture, highlighting systemic racism and ongoing colonial violence as well as the cumulative effects of these cultural forces for isolated and marginalized Indigenous women working as survival sex workers.