It's tricky because her family was white her brother is white... She is clearly not white and back then.They did not try to keep native families together. They tried to whitewash kids and erase their culture. Now that I read more about it. I don't think she did anything wrong. I think she doesn't know all of the details and that it is.It's not her fault.
Her community accepts her and embraces her, and that's all that matters. I think she was born there, and I think she was taken away to be raised by a white family and they tried to erase all indigenous identity.
She is clearly an indigenous woman. She looks nothing like her brother or the lady that took the test that show "no indigenous ancestry".
I think she got whitewashed. I think they try to erase everything about her. And those practices started before the sixties scoop. They just didn't, all of the sudden start trying to erase a culture that's been happening for a very long time. They used to try and find any reason to not give indigenous people the rights they deserved.
We are effectively doing that now by not acknowledging the fact the world was racist, corrupt and terrible towards indigenous people back then. Something might have happened that she had absolutely no control over her, and I absolutely believe that someone probably tried to erase her identity.
Her birth certificate says she's white... She's clearly not late for how many happened there.
If her own community is acknowledging, her and rejecting our government records... You should listen. There's more to the story, and I think this is not the first time this has happened to someone.
The fact that we're all going crazy without hearing her side of this story is pretty sad, actually.
She's going to need help uncovering her side of things, and just because people didn't do things by the book back then doesn't mean and that she's lying.
I take back my statement I made earlier because I did some reading and and I really feel like this lady might be a victim of the oppressor. Over and over again, this woman has been victimized even though she created a career and it wonderful things.
I think there just needs to be a little bit of time for people to figure out what exactly happened, and it's not her fault. I think I need to wait and see what happens in order to form an opinion. If everything she says and does is under a microscope and is being scrutinized so heavily, she's going to need time and a lot of help to come back with a response, because i'm sure there's a lot of unanswered shared questions for her that she needs to figure out. She has to look into her own family history that maybe is very difficult to figure out. I think that if her own nation is not questioning anything, they know what really happened. It might not be documented and it might not be on record anywhere, but they know.
The other issue is that she could come up with all of the information needed, and she could get all of these things back but that will never get as much attention as the article about her being a "pretendian"
Her nation can rally around her and tell the story from start to finish, but maybe they don't keep the same records and some social worker from the 50's trying to white wash a native child has succeeded in ruining her life more than once.
They were trying to erase people being indigenous for a long time after she might have been adopted. They were not just doing it to children, they were doing it to adults. They were doing everything in their power to not have to acknowledge an indigenous person and give them rights or acknowledge those rights.
I think she's a victim and I hope she gets justice in the end.
