Exploring Theme: "Indigenous Identity"

CBC News: Two law professors at Dalhousie University say the school’s proposed process of verifying Indigenous heritage risks retraumatizing staff, students and faculty subjected to it, and could exclude those with legitimate claims. Last year, the Halifax university created a task force to address how it should handle false claims of Indigenous identity. It issued its...

APTN News: More than 30 people attended a conference in Tsuut’ina, just outside of Calgary, to talk about the issues of people falsely claiming Indigenous identity. They have come to colloquially be called “Pretendians. ”Participants came from as far as Halifax to hear about how to deal with increasing false claims of Indigenous identity.“ You...