Indigenous self-ID/"Pretendians" (merged thread)

[dapaterson]

Wait- are you saying that oral tradition can sometimes be inaccurate?

At the risk of following a proud Army dot ca tradition, have you not read any of the threads on Reserve restructure?

 

[Remius]

Don’t understand estimate the power of family myth. If all your relatives are telling you about your indigenous great-grandfather, or your grandmother told everyone she’s indigenous, a lot of the family will probably take that at face value.

My issue isn’t with someone claiming something they may have been told and innocently believes it at face value.

It is when they may profit and exploit it without really looking into it. Especially when culturally they have little to no link.