Canadian Professor Accused of Making False Claims of Indigenous Ancestry Resigns

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The College Fix reports:

Canada’s fake ‘Indigenous’ professor resignsA Canadian professor whose claims of Indigenous ancestry were found baseless has resigned from employment at the University of Saskatchewan, according to a June 1 news release from Preston Smith, dean of the College of Medicine.Carrie Bourassa (pictured) taught in the department of community health and epidemiology and ran an Indigenous community health research lab at the university, the CBC reported.Bourassa had claimed to belong to three Canadian Indigenous peoples, according to the Star Phoenix, the daily newspaper of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.However, an October 2021 CBC investigation into Bourassa’s genealogy found no evidence of Indigenous ancestry and traced her lineage back to Europe and the United States.Janet Smylie, a family medicine expert at the University of Toronto and a member of the Métis nation, told the CBC that she confirmed Bourassa’s non-Indigenous identity through her own research.“To have an impostor who is speaking on behalf of Métis and Indigenous people to the country about literally what it means to be Métis … that’s very disturbing and upsetting and harmful,” Smylie told the news outlet.Bourassa had claimed that the Métis leader adopted her into the community at age 20, telling her that he had researched her ancestry and found group heritage, the Phoenix reported.But the leader died before she saw the proof he claimed to have found, Bourassa said.“When I was very young, I knew I was not a Caucasian person. I knew there was something very different about me,” Bourassa claimed.

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