{"id":51031,"date":"2016-12-31T01:03:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T01:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51031"},"modified":"2016-12-31T01:03:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T01:03:18","slug":"author-joseph-boyden-defends-indigenous-heritage-after-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51031","title":{"rendered":"Author Joseph Boyden defends indigenous heritage after investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author Joseph Boyden defends indigenous heritage after investigation<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Toronto Star<\/a>
\n2016-12-26<\/p>\n

Nicole Thompson<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe Canadian Press<\/em><\/p>\n

Author responds after investigation by Aboriginal Peoples Television Network<\/a> into his background.<\/em><\/p>\n

A celebrated Canadian author who writes about First Nations<\/a> heritage and culture is defending himself on Twitter after his ancestry was questioned.<\/p>\n

In a statement posted to his Twitter account<\/a>, Joseph Boyden<\/a> said he is of \u201cmostly Celtic<\/a> heritage,\u201d but he also has Nipmuc<\/a> roots on his father\u2019s side and Ojibway<\/a> roots on his mother\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Boyden has won the Scotiabank Giller Prize<\/a> and his work was nominated for the Governor General\u2019s award. He is a member of the Order of Canada<\/a> and was an honorary witness at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He made his remarks in response to an Aboriginal Peoples Television Network investigation<\/a> by award-winning reporter Jorge Barrera<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The investigation digs into the different claims of indigenous ancestry Boyden has made throughout his life, and the evidence \u2014 or lack thereof \u2014 to back it up.<\/p>\n

Barrera wrote that the author is predominantly Celtic and has also referred to having Metis<\/a>, Ojibway, Mi\u2019kmaq<\/a> and Nipmuc heritage.<\/p>\n

He said Boyden sometimes referred to himself as Anishinabe<\/a>, which includes the \u201cculturally related\u201d Ojibway, Odawa<\/a> and Algonquin peoples<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In his statement, Boyden said that he mistakenly said he was Metis, which is traditionally applied to descendants of French traders and trappers and indigenous women in the Canadian northwest…<\/p>\n

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

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 […]<\/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":[25886,25888,25889,16792,25910,4798,2117],"class_list":["post-51031","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-jorge-barrera","tag-joseph-boyden","tag-nicole-thompson","tag-the-toronto-star","tag-toronto-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51031","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=51031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51032,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51031\/revisions\/51032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}