{"id":62039,"date":"2021-11-02T20:56:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T20:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62039"},"modified":"2021-11-02T20:56:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T20:56:04","slug":"health-scientist-carrie-bourassa-on-immediate-leave-after-scrutiny-of-her-claim-shes-indigenous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62039","title":{"rendered":"Health scientist Carrie Bourassa on immediate leave after scrutiny of her claim she’s Indigenous"},"content":{"rendered":"

Health scientist Carrie Bourassa on immediate leave after scrutiny of her claim she’s Indigenous<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

CBC News<\/a>
\n2021-11-02<\/p>\n

Geoff Leo<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Investigative Journalist<\/p>\n

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At the 2019 TEDx talk<\/a> in Saskatoon<\/a>, Carrie Bourassa<\/a> claimed publicly that she is M\u00e9tis<\/a> and Anishnaabe<\/a> and has suffered the effects of racism. (YouTube.com<\/em>)<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

University of Saskatchewan, CIHR place Bourassa on leave over lack of evidence<\/em><\/p>\n

Carrie Bourassa<\/a>, a University of Saskatchewan professor and the scientific director of the Indigenous health arm of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research<\/a> (CIHR), is on leave from both institutions following a weekend of online outrage stemming from CBC’s investigation into her claims to Indigeneity.<\/p>\n

Bourassa, who has headed up an Indigenous research lab at the U of S and the CIHR’s Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health<\/a>, has publicly claimed to be M\u00e9tis<\/a>, Anishnaabe<\/a> and Tlingit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CBC found there was no evidence<\/a> she was Indigenous, despite her claims many times over the past 20 years. When asked, Bourassa hasn’t offered any genealogical evidence to back up her claims, but in a statement she said two years ago she hired a genealogist to help her investigate her ancestry, and that work continues.<\/p>\n

Just last week, after publication of the CBC story, the CIHR issued a statement supporting Bourassa, saying it “values the work of the Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health under Dr. Carrie Bourassa’s leadership.” And the U of S also backed her, stating, “The quality of Professor Bourassa’s scholarly work speaks for itself and has greatly benefited the health of communities across Canada<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

However, on Monday, both institutions announced Bourassa was on immediate leave…<\/p>\n

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

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