{"id":60642,"date":"2021-03-11T02:37:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T02:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60642"},"modified":"2021-03-11T02:37:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T02:37:39","slug":"im-mixed-race-and-sometimes-i-feel-like-i-dont-belong-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60642","title":{"rendered":"I’m mixed race, and sometimes I feel like I don’t belong anywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m mixed race, and sometimes I feel like I don’t belong anywhere<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

CBC News<\/a>
\nBritish Columbia<\/a>
\n2021-03-07<\/p>\n

Jeremy Ratt<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Producer
\nCBC Vancouver<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nMy mother is Indigenous, and my dad is white. That makes me mixed \u2014 two pieces of me, split right down the middle, writes Jeremy Ratt<\/a>. (Maggie MacPherson\/CBC)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Indigenous people say I don’t look Indigenous, white people say I’m not white. So who am I, really?<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s hard to be me.<\/p>\n

I’m not fishing for sympathy or downplaying the struggles of other people who I recognize have it much worse. I feel safe and loved.<\/p>\n

But I have trouble being me, because I really don’t know who “me” is at this moment.<\/p>\n

I was born 19 years ago on a cold day at Royal University Hospital<\/a> in Saskatoon<\/a>. My mother is fully Indigenous, from the Woodland Cree First Nation<\/a> in northern Saskatchewan<\/a>, while my father is Caucasian with various ties to European ancestry. This makes me a person of mixed race. Two pieces of me, split right down the middle.<\/p>\n

Ever since I could walk and talk, it became apparent that this background was going to be a major part of me. It was clear that I was different and there was no hiding that. “Apitoscan” was a word I’d always heard when it came to the definition of M\u00e9tis people. In Woods Cree<\/a>, it means “half-breed” as well as “M\u00e9tis<\/a>.”…<\/p>\n

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

Indigenous people say I don’t look Indigenous, white people say I’m not white. So who am I, really?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,19,8,3015],"tags":[31357,13560,14458,31356],"class_list":["post-60642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-canada","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","tag-british-colombia","tag-cbc","tag-cbc-news","tag-jeremy-ratt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60642","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=60642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60645,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60642\/revisions\/60645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}