In other news, Michelle Latimer and her PR firm continue to gaslight us all in that terrible piece in the G&M today. Hiring Malette & Pulla and then calling them "experts" is a bit rich, even for Navigator (PR firm). 1 All we find out is what we already knew - Latimer's "non-status Algonquin" & "Métis" identity relies on two women ancestors born in about 1605 and 1647, respectively. That doesn't make her Indigenous. Period. 2

I just completed a journal article on the fake "Abenaki tribes" in Vermont. What I uncovered is remarkable. They all rely on French-Canadians immigrants in mid-1800s as "root ancestors," no Abenaki ancestry whatsoever.

#raceshifting In case you're wondering, these 4 "Abenaki tribes" were recognized by the State of Vermont:

Elnu Abenaki Tribe + Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk-Abenaki (2011) + Abenaki Nation at Missisquoi + Koasek Traditional Band of the Koas Abenaki Nation (2012).

Getting a lot of questions about the “Abenaki tribes” in VT & NH since publication of my book. To be clear, all of them are involved in #raceshifting. All of them. The actual Abenaki people took a strong stand against the “Abenaki” charade in New England last April. I explain in Chapter 1 of #DistortedDescent that virtually everybody enrolled in these “tribes” are white French-descendants relying on Indigenous OR French women ancestors born prior to 1650. I discovered this in doing research on online genealogy forums. #raceshifting