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.

 

[Furniture]

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.

100% agree.

It's one thing for Timmy to go around telling people he's a "viking" because his family is supposed to have come from Denmark. It's entirely a different thing to go around claiming "viking" ancestry, and declaring themself an expert in large part because of ancentry, to make money, when they're not at all "viking".

 

[Halifax Tar]

100% agree.

It's one thing for Timmy to go around telling people he's a "viking" because his family is supposed to have come from Denmark. It's entirely a different thing to go around claiming "viking" ancestry, and declaring themself an expert in large part because of ancentry, to make money, when they're not at all "viking".

I think these DNA test services have been very good in showing people that almost no one is pure anything. And especially in NA were almost all a Heinz 57.