Music icon Buffy Sainte-Marie’s claims to Indigenous ancestry are being called into question by family members and a Fifth Estate investigation that includes...
  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Message to Native Canada:

    • White people can identify as Indian until Native people tell them to stop
    • If they’ve repeated the lie long enough and made millions doing it … don’t worry about it, we’ll let you get away with it.
    • BTW … if you are an actual Indigenous person, we still don’t give a shit about you.
    • MapleEngineer@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Do you want indigenous people to be carded any time they claim they have indigenous heritage?

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        If it means anyone gets special treatment, grants, rights, gifts, awards, funds or significant recognition … and especially if it will mean millions of dollars in profits, income or wealth … by all means yes card any individual that claims indigenous heritage.

        It would put a stop to professionals, academics, writers, performers, artists and politicians from taking advantage of false native heritage to gain an unfair and illegitimate advantage in their field … and at the worst become and act as a representative of the people they have a hand in oppressing