Indigenous icon Buffy Sainte-Marie’s identity was brought into question by a CBC investigation, her Piapot family says the accusations are “ignorant, colonial – and racist.”
Indigenous icon Buffy Sainte-Marie’s identity was brought into question by a CBC investigation, her Piapot family says the accusations are “ignorant, colonial – and racist.”
The “Notable Examples” section here is much longer than I expected:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretendian
This must be so hurtful to some people, I can’t even imagine. The CBC investigation looks thorough. A response like this is just weak.
On “Day 6” this morning on CBC Radio One they had a Metis Lawyer on who estimates the amount of “Predentians” to be about 25%. That number is huge.
The problem is, as she states in the interview, that there are no winners in this only losers.
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-14-day-6/clip/16019165-metis-lawyer-says-truth-hurts-regarding-buffy-sainte-maries