{"id":57196,"date":"2018-12-31T03:27:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T03:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57196"},"modified":"2018-12-31T03:28:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T03:28:31","slug":"charla-huber-every-indigenous-person-is-indigenous-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57196","title":{"rendered":"Charla Huber: Every Indigenous person is Indigenous enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timescolonist.com\/opinion\/columnists\/charla-huber-every-indigenous-person-is-indigenous-enough-1.23566435\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Charla Huber: Every Indigenous person is Indigenous enough<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timescolonist.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Times Colonist<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Victoria, British Columbia, Canada<\/em><br \/>\n2018-12-30<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CharlaHuber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Charla Huber<\/strong><\/a>, Communications and Indigenous Relations<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/makola.bc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>M\u2019akola Group of Societies<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timescolonist.com\/opinion\/columnists\/charla-huber-every-indigenous-person-is-indigenous-enough-1.23566435\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"d-inline-block img-fluid\" title=\" Devan Cronshaw, left, Riley McKenzie and Alita Tocher are all urban Indigenous people in the capital region.\" src=\"https:\/\/images.glaciermedia.ca\/polopoly_fs\/1.23566433.1546137385!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/landscape_804\/new-dx-1230-ho-ho-huber-jpg.jpg\" alt=\"New_dx-1230-ho ho huber.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Devan Cronshaw, left, Riley McKenzie and Alita Tocher are all urban Indigenous people in the capital region.<br \/>\n<em>Photograph By Charla Huber, Times Colonist<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>So often, we hear the words reconciliation and decolonization, and lately I have been wondering if people really understand their meanings. The more I read, learn and listen, the more important these words become to me.<\/p>\n<p>I am a product of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sixties_Scoop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sixties Scoop<\/a> and was adopted and raised by a non-Indigenous family. Being adopted and having no knowledge of or connection to my birth family growing up, I really held onto being Indigenous. It was the only thing that I ever knew about myself for sure.<\/p>\n<p>Because I wasn\u2019t raised in Indigenous culture, I have often wondered if I am Indigenous enough. This is especially heightened because I am half. I am very open about my heritage and my adoption, but I do struggle saying: \u201cMy family is from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Chipewyan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fort Chipewyan<\/a> and I have <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inuit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inuit<\/a> roots.\u201d I\u2019ve never set foot on my ancestors\u2019 traditional territory&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timescolonist.com\/opinion\/columnists\/charla-huber-every-indigenous-person-is-indigenous-enough-1.23566435\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn\u2019t matter how dark or fair someone\u2019s skin is or if they grew up in a family that struggled or one of privilege. There is no such thing as being Indigenous enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,125,8,3015],"tags":[29208,29205,29207,29206,28616,16387],"class_list":["post-57196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","tag-alita-tocher","tag-charla-huber","tag-devan-cronshaw","tag-riley-mckenzie","tag-the-times-colonist","tag-times-colonist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57196","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=57196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57199,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57196\/revisions\/57199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}