Canadian author Thomas King says he is not Indigenous, following a genealogical investigation that found no evidence of the Cherokee ancestry he believed he had throughout his life and career.
A lot of faux Indians all over this country. I once visited a reserve to buy some pot plants. I guess that makes me Indigenous...Can I now wear a culturally appropriated Haida Indian tattoo like Justin Trudeau? What makes one man an Indian today makes another man a liar and racist tomorrow. BTW: Where are the 215 bodies?
This is why the whole identity industry (belonging to an identifiable group) is nonsense. Even if he had Cherokee ancestry, why does that make what he says more true/accurate? Take things people say and or have lived through at face value and determine if true or accurate, why does it matter what you identify as?
A lot of faux Indians all over this country. I once visited a reserve to buy some pot plants. I guess that makes me Indigenous...Can I now wear a culturally appropriated Haida Indian tattoo like Justin Trudeau? What makes one man an Indian today makes another man a liar and racist tomorrow. BTW: Where are the 215 bodies?
This is why the whole identity industry (belonging to an identifiable group) is nonsense. Even if he had Cherokee ancestry, why does that make what he says more true/accurate? Take things people say and or have lived through at face value and determine if true or accurate, why does it matter what you identify as?
If Canada's (and USA's) indigenous are so oppressed and mistreated, why are non-indigenous caught appropriating that heritage so frequently?
It must be lucrative to claim Indian status today.
When you have written accounts then you something to discuss !! When you have verbal stories then that is all you have are stories no evidence .
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Saul Bellow quotes:
"Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans? I’d be glad to read him."
"Where is Africa's Shakespeare? Where is the Zulu Tolstoy?"
So no surpise this writer isn't Indian.
Will he be alright?