Many claims to Cherokee identity are unsubstantiated, and this actively harms Indigenous sovereignty, distorts understandings of Indigeneity and enables appropriation of Indigenous rights and resources.
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Four Red River Métis scholars discuss their intimate role in the ongoing issue of Indigenous identity fraud.
The Lemba view is that one can be indigenous to more than one place, and that more than one people can be indigenous to a single place.
Arguments against including Indigenous cultural perspectives and experiences in public policy have spilled over into prejudice and racism on both sides of the Tasman. That harms democracy.
A comprehensive strategy does not seem to be an immediate priority for Congolese authorities with an eye on elections.
Challenging Indigenous identity fraud in academia must name and focus explicitly on structures of whiteness, white entitlement and settler colonialism so we don’t recreate the harms of past policies.
Indigenous Nations have always maintained their citizenship orders. They have always retained the right to determine who does and does not belong. We know who we are.
Events like the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony present history as a simplistic story of progress and reconciliation.
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Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, McGill University
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Honorary Associate Professor, College of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Rwanda
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Adjunct Professor, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington and Auckland University of Technology, Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
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Research Associate, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University
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Lecturer, Griffith Law School, Griffith University
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Professor, DLSPH and DFCM, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, Indigenous Studies, University of Saskatchewan
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Associate Professor, Indigenous Studies Department & Department of Health, Aging and Society, McMaster University
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Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Health Equity and Inclusion, University of Calgary
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Cherokee Nation citizen, Professor of Critical Indigenous Studies and English, University of British Columbia