Prof in Canada Loses Job After Being Outed for Faking ‘Indigenous’ Status

Maybe she should hire former law professor Elizabeth Warren to represent her.

The College Fix reports:

Canadian ‘indigenous’ professor outed as a fake; loses university, government gigsRemember the University of Saskatchewan professor whose alleged indigenous background was being questioned?After initially supporting Carrie Bourassa, both the university and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research have now suspended her after it was revealed she is actually “entirely European.”Bourassa had claimed she belonged to the Métis, Anishnaabe and Tlingit communities, but after an investigation by the CBC, the professor could not back up any of that. She also said she had hired a genealogist two years ago to examine her background, and that work “is ongoing.”“Today I spoke with Dr Carrie Bourassa … and we agreed that she will step away from all of her duties as Scientific Director of the Institute,” CIHR President Michael Strong said last week, according to the Independent. “As such, Dr Bourassa will be on an indefinite leave without pay effective immediately.”The institute cited Bourassa’s past statements to the media and the harm “this information may be causing Indigenous individuals and communities.”The New York Post reports that University of Saskatchewan Indigenous Studies Professor Winona Wheeler had said she “smelled a rat” after seeing Bourassa’s TED Talk at the school: “When I saw that TEDx, to be quite honest, I was repulsed by how hard she was working to pass herself off as indigenous.”The Daily Mail notes the university has hired an indigenous lawyer, Jean Teillet, to further investigate “whether or not [Bourassa] misrepresents herself.”

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