Thread by @malone_j71

"Using the law to mandate who can claim Indigenous ancestry is a slippery slope - The Globe and Mail": theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-l…

Really, the law is who mandated them from their Indigenous identity to begin with in most cases.

I don't think this is an appropriate metaphor at all and I think it is more of a case of you twisting the data to fit your narrative. Using words like "pretendian" is harmful and hurtful , you do not know these peoples connections, genealogies or communities.

Pretty colonial definition on who is Indigenous. How about those NonStatus who have yet to be fderally recognized? What you are forgetting to mention in this whole argument, is those who think they are golden ones who get to identity police are only so because they have been

approved by the federal government or they would be in the exact same situation, of the people you are talking about. There is no magical formula on who is Indigenous and who isn't , it is well documented that some people are just not recognized because there were not there

the day the Indian agent took band lists. Now we use contemporary band lists who the federal government says is Indigenous recognized and who isn't , not the Nation itself. Let's be real here. The Government also used

enfranchisement and assimilation to cut Indigenous people from those lists. White women who married Indigenous were on those lists as Indigenous and Indigenous women who married white or moved off reserve lost that same entitlement to Indigenous status. Now you want to set up a

system to further ostracize these people from trying to re-connect to their cultures and communities? You call that reconciliation? I call that a good recipe to make sure there are more disconnected women and children who make it on the MMIW list. Who the hell is Tamara Bell to

think she can police Indigenous Identity? She personally knows all communities, their circumstances, their histories and stories? How they have been marginalized by the gov to be nonexistent Indigenous people who are lost and trying to find their connections again per their

International human legal right, through UNDRIP @TheDHTaylor .. You have a white Non-Indigenous professor @DarrylLeroux, working with Kim Tallbear who isn't even Canadian , policing Indigenous Identities. Do you see how insidious that is? They follow no Indigenous research

protocols that have been put in place to protect these marginalized people and communities. Just because someone does not have a status card and is not yet recognized, does not make them less Indigenous to Turtle Island.

personally I think this messy metaphor covers Darryl just nicely. He is a white man in a powerful position passing judgement using other people who have been 'Lucky" enough to have been on that band list that day, to make them seem legitimately "more" Indigenous and oh so ready

to pass judgement on other Indigenous people. Unless you are going to do this on a "case by case" basis, who is going to "card" all these people. Who is going to check into their histories, stories, cultures and call judgement, on people who may not even be from your own nation?

What about "hidden communities" such as Powley? Who would have spoke up for Steve Powley and his community? A tortured people-the politics of colonization - Howard Adams -1995- hidden history- it is this type of censorship that allows the colonizer and the academics to dominate

and propagate a biased view of Indian and Metis colonial situation. Which is exactly the position we are in right now. Look at what was done to Ms Parent. Look at the degree of humiliations and public shaming that was used to discredit her, now she has done the work and

documented her lineage, how is this an appropriate response in 2020? Apparently we are going back to identity politics instead of healing communities and people, so stop with the bullshit spewing from one side of your mouth about re-claiming cultures, identities etc, while witch

hunting others who might not have quite the same supports, or community engagements to help them out for whatever reason they have lost their connections to their kin and communities.

432 rcap - Frank Palmater - aboriginal ancestry- acceptance from whose community. Frank wasn't scared to ask the hard questions, he knew that "Status Card" Indigenous were not going to claim those who may be from their nation but were not on their reserve. Didn't have those

close connections to a federally recognized Indigenous person and knew he couldn't on them to stand up and claim them . Notice what he says about "First Nations' - community acceptance will not happen in his lifetime, and it probably won't in mine either. The government uses

resources and people to further these divisions, so they don't have to acknowledge and deal with them and you just keep buying in further and further. Take a look @CrownIndigenous re-tweeting @DarrylLeroux to see the road that is going to take you down. I know it is a road of

your choosing, but some of us will make sure the truth of this is known. UNDRIP 9-11 - Read Article 9, which is why Canada so desperately wants it to be accepted under the Canadian Constitution (Then Canada can choose to ignore it and not implement it, like it does on other

Indigenous decisions, like say the Daniels case, which is why Bennet is so fond of Darryl and wants those divisions made) and not the International legal law it is ..