Former Scientific Director of Canada's Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health Carrie Bourassa has been accused of faking her Indigenous identity
Photo: Youtube Another allegedly white woman has been accused of faking her identity as a woman of color, this time in Canada. Former Scientific Director of the Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health Carrie Bourassa has been accused of faking her Indigenous identity. But unlike the instances of Rachel Dolezal, who wrote an entire book about her decision to identify as a black woman, or Marvel Comics’ Editor-in-Chief C.B.
Bourassa responded to the allegations, and while she admitted that she might be lacking any documentation to prove her Métis heritage, she claimed that Clifford Larocque, the president of a local Métis society, had proven her ancestry and offered her membership in 2006. “He did his due diligence. He didn’t just give me a Métis card,” she said in an interview with the Saskatoon StarPhoenix just a few days after the CBC News exposé was originally published.
Indigenous academics are skeptical of Bourassa’s adoption claims, especially as it compares to her previous claims about having Indigenous ancestors. In 2018, for example, Bourassa claimed to have met Tlingit relatives who believed that her great-grandmother was Tlingit, but she now admits that her great-grandmother was not Indigenous. As her former U of S colleague Dr. Caroling Tait told the Saskatoon StarPhoenix, “To claim that she’s adopted is just muddying the waters.
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