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  • Full interview: Joseph Boyden on his heritage

    Full interview: Joseph Boyden on his heritage CBC Radio 2017-01-11 Jesse Kinos-Goodin Author Joseph Boyden addresses the recent controversy surrounding his Indigenous ancestral claims. (Penguin) “A small part of me is Indigenous, but it’s a big part of who I am.” Is Joseph Boyden really Indigenous? It’s a question a lot of people have been…

  • Soccer Led Me To Embrace Every Part Of My Multiracial Heritage

    Soccer Led Me To Embrace Every Part Of My Multiracial Heritage The Huffington Post 2017-01-06 Geneva Abdul, Publicist & Writer Toronto, Ontario, Canada Born from the marrying of British and Trinidadian cultures, I defined my cultural identity through soccer when I decided to play for Trinidad and Tobago at the age of 14. Growing up,…

  • The complex issue of indigenous heritage

    Acclaimed novelist Joseph Boyden faces controversy surrounding his heritage but there is a long history in North American of blurred lines.

  • Mixed in the Six pop-up events created to support multiracial Torontonians

    Mixed in the Six pop-up events created to support multiracial Torontonians The Toronto Star 2017-01-03 Erin Kobayashi Mixed in the Six, is a pop-up event aimed at building a community for multi-racial Torontonians. (Cole Burtan/Toronto Star) An event for the off-spring of mixed-race families hits a chord as the difficult to ‘identify’ find their people.…

  • Author Joseph Boyden defends indigenous heritage after investigation

    Author Joseph Boyden defends indigenous heritage after investigation The Toronto Star 2016-12-26 Nicole Thompson The Canadian Press Author responds after investigation by Aboriginal Peoples Television Network into his background. A celebrated Canadian author who writes about First Nations heritage and culture is defending himself on Twitter after his ancestry was questioned. In a statement posted…

  • Joseph Boyden, where are you from?

    Joseph Boyden, where are you from? The Globe And Mail 2016-12-28 Hayden King, Assistant Professor School of Public Policy Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada My name is Hayden King. I am the son of Hayden (Sr.) and Carol. On my father’s side I am Anishinaabe, Ojibwe from my grandmother Eleanor and Potawatomi from my grandfather,…

  • The double life of Injun Joe

    The double life of Injun Joe Maclean’s 1956-07-21 Dorothy Sangster [Katz] (1913-2011) The tourists at Algonquin Park think they’re meeting a real live redskin in a tribal tepee. Indian schmindian! He’s Tex Boyden, who reads the New Yorker, sips Martinis and makes his living selling beads to the white natives When Erl Boyden was five…

  • Author Joseph Boyden’s shape-shifting Indigenous identity

    Author Joseph Boyden’s shape-shifting Indigenous identity APTN National News Aboriginal Peoples Television Network Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 2016-12-23 Jorge Barrera Three Day Road author Joseph Boyden’s uncle went by the alias “Injun Joe” and wore a headdress while selling drums made of tin cans wrapped in birch and other “Indian” items to tourists from a shop…

  • Guest Shot: Vancouver viaducts removal clears way to honour Hogan’s Alley

    Guest Shot: Vancouver viaducts removal clears way to honour Hogan’s Alley Vancouver Metro News 2016-11-10 Wayde Compton Vancouver writer Wayde Compton (Ayelet Tsabari/Submitted) Removal of the 1960s downtown infrastructure a chance to create a gathering space, an archive, for future black communities, argues Wayde Compton Last year, Vancouver City Council voted to take the Georgia…

  • Citizen Monsters: Race and Cannibalism in Suzette Mayr’s Venous Hum

    Citizen Monsters: Race and Cannibalism in Suzette Mayr’s Venous Hum Andrea Beverley, Assistant Professor of Canadian Cultural and Literary Studies Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes Volume 47, Number 1, Winter 2013 pages 36-58 Halfway through Suzette Mayr’s 2004 novel Venous Hum, a number of the central characters…