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On Sept. 30, community groups across Canada observe the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to honour the generations impacted by the residential school system and to remember the children who never returned home. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

We curated a podcast playlist for you: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

This playlist of podcast episodes invites listeners to engage in learning and unlearning; to acknowledge the tragic legacies of residential schools and to move beyond a single day of remembrance.
Grey Owl (Archibald Stansfeld Belaney) was a Canadian writer and conservationist and one of the most well-known Indigenous imposters. (CP / National Archives of Canada C-036186)

Outing a pretendian: How four Métis scholars redefined Indigenous identity policy

Four Red River Métis scholars discuss their intimate role in the ongoing issue of Indigenous identity fraud.
Musician Buffy Sainte-Marie, pictured here in 1970, has long said she didn’t know who her birth parents were but that she was Indigenous. Last week, a CBC investigation revealed both her parents were white. CMA-Creative Management Associates, Los Angeles

How journalists tell Buffy Sainte-Marie’s story matters — explained by a ’60s Scoop survivor

Lori Campbell, a ‘60s Scoop survivor, challenges the CBC’s motives in their exposé on the questionable Indigenous roots of legendary singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie.
Grey Owl was an original ‘pretendian,’ portraying himself as the the son of a Scottish man and Apache woman after moving to Canada in the early 1900s. (Canadian National Railways/Library and Archives Canada, e010861684)

Fraudulent claims of indigeneity: Indigenous nations are the identity experts

Those quick to call-out are often not clamouring for Indigenous nations’ jurisdiction over citizenship, nor are they demanding “pretendians” be held accountable to Indigenous nations.

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