The Earth is burning around us as a slo-mo climate catastrophe builds up unstoppably. Fascists and other authoritarians are ramping up to take control of people around the world (with a major party in Canada, even, hiring an open fascist into its leadership). Canadian essentials prices are reaching the point where the practically the entire nation is finding it increasingly difficult to meet the basic needs of food and shelter. There’s a genocide going on in Gaza after a mass murder was done against Israelis. The people of Ukraine are still fighting off an invader that the world let get cocky and arrogant enough to decide to invade.
But the CBC is bravely fighting to expose a has-been entertainer.
Bravo, CBC! Only you have the journalistic integrity to do deep investigative journalism on issues that don’t matter at all! Keep up the great, tax-funded work!
It would take some work, but if I were Buffy and 100% confident I was adopted, I would find a DNA sample from my parents (likely a hair on anything they owned, like a brush or clothing) or have one / both of my parents exhumed to take one tiny DNA samples from their body. With a DNA test, the result would be so definitive that anyone who had questioned my ancestry before would at that point shut the fuck up.
Isn’t her contention that it doesn’t matter if she was naturally born to the Sainte-Marie’s because the Piapot’s adopted/claim her as their family and therfore she is indigenous no matter what anyone else says?
But if her claim is that it doesn’t matter if she was conceived by indigenous parents then doing a genetic test can only strengthen her opponents’ position. Why would she do that?
It’s my opinion that she is unlikely to have significant indigenous ancestry and that she has intentionally mislead the public about the nature of her connection to the indigenous community. That said: she may have entered the indigenous community under false pretenses but she IS part of the community.
I feel it is quite inappropriate for her to have accepted grants/awards reserved for people disenfranchised by settler colonialism and residential schools. But, I don’t know if it’s possible to discern which awards etc are intended as such and which are just to lift indigenous cultures in aggregate. She should double down on her rejection of colonial definitions and just announce her willingness to voluntarily return any awards/ grants to all organizations that feel blood quantum is paramount to indigeneity. I think that would put this whole thing to bed.
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