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Feb 16, 2022, 8 tweets

"Qalipu First Nation Proud to be Welcomed as Newest Member of the Atlantic Policy Congress – Qalipu": qalipu.ca/qalipu-first-n…

But I get told that I am not even allowed to claim my own Mi'kmaw ancestors ?

But the feds can create a band, that was formed by a declaration of the federal cabinet, and use our Acadian Metis / Acadian Mi'kmaw ancestry for status First Nation , while we are told we can not claim it? How fucking interesting ..

Who knew, that even though me and the Qalipu membership shares many of the same ancestors with the same generations, I am a raceshifting fraud and they get to be Status First Nations and

Qalipu is now a member of the Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs Secretariat. Well who knew, I guess I just needed to be in Newfoundland instead of having my own genealogies who have been here since before Canada even existed, but switch provinces and I guess I

am then golden and good to go ?

Ouch !! I guess not, they are still labelled "Pretendians" and NonIndigenous, Darryl tsk tsk, Jarvis says they are now members of Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs Secretariat, Qalipu First Nation is pleased to share that following a recent meeting of the Atlantic

Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs Secretariat (APC), the Band has been accepted into the APC. Are you saying they are Pretendians and NonIndigenous or is that just reserved for those in Nova Scotia, even though we have the exact same genealogies?

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