{"id":51001,"date":"2016-12-30T02:51:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T02:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51001"},"modified":"2016-12-30T02:51:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T02:51:56","slug":"joseph-boyden-where-are-you-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51001","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Boyden, where are you from?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joseph Boyden, where are you from?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Globe And Mail<\/a>
\n2016-12-28<\/p>\n

Hayden King<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor
\nSchool of Public Policy
\nCarleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n

My name is Hayden King. I am the son of Hayden (Sr.) and Carol. On my father\u2019s side I am Anishinaabe<\/a>, Ojibwe<\/a> from my grandmother Eleanor and Potawatomi<\/a> from my grandfather, Rufus. Through blood and adoption we can trace our roots back seven generations. But eventually threads of this lineage were woven together on the sandy shores of Gchi\u2019mnissing, or Beausoleil First Nation<\/a> (Christian Island<\/a>), in southern Georgian Bay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I offer this orientation as a matter of custom. Among Anishinaabeg, it is an expected response to the standard greeting-question, \u201cWhere are you from?\u201d For we are a people of renewal, a people seeking each other out in our century-long reclamation of culture, language, family and identity. We are a people bound by our relationships.<\/p>\n

But earlier this week, after years of unclear answers to this question from celebrated Canadian author Joseph Boyden<\/a>, APTN<\/a> reporter Jorge Barrera<\/a>, supported by independent researchers, investigated the author\u2019s claims and couldn\u2019t find evidence of either Nipmuc<\/a> or Ojibwe heritage. It appears that Mr. Boyden has not been forthcoming about his indigenous identity, benefiting from a crafted ambiguity.<\/p>\n

Mr. Boyden is just the latest. Last year prolific scholar Andrea Smith\u2019s<\/a> claims to Cherokee<\/a> ancestry were debunked. Before Ms. Smith were academics Susan Taffe Reed and Ward Churchill<\/a>, writers Margaret Seltzer<\/a> and Archie Belaney<\/a> (Grey Owl), actors Espera Oscar de Corti<\/a> (Iron Eyes Cody), Johnny Depp<\/a> and so on. There is a long tradition of playing Indian…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s side I am Anishinaabe, Ojibwe from my grandmother Eleanor and Potawatomi from my grandfather, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,8,3015,6462],"tags":[25886,25888,25887,20611,16298,25889,16792,8908],"class_list":["post-51001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-passing-2","tag-aboriginal-peoples-television-network","tag-aptn","tag-aptn-national-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-hayden-king","tag-jorge-barrera","tag-joseph-boyden","tag-the-globe-and-mail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51002,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51001\/revisions\/51002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}