{"id":62060,"date":"2021-11-03T15:41:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T15:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62060"},"modified":"2021-11-03T15:42:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T15:42:00","slug":"she-is-not-metis-she-is-the-modern-day-grey-owl-tait-said-referring-to-the-famous-british-born-conservationist-from-the-early-1900s-who-fooled-the-world-into-believing-he-was-a-na","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62060","title":{"rendered":"\u201cShe is not M\u00e9tis. She is the modern-day Grey Owl,\u201d Tait said, referring to the famous British-born conservationist from the early 1900s who fooled the world into believing he was a Native American man."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.usask.ca\/profiles\/psychiatry\/tait.c.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Caroline] Tait<\/a> said genealogical records show that <a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.usask.ca\/profiles\/che\/carrie-bourassa.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Carrie] Bourassa\u2019s<\/a> supposed Indigenous ancestors were of Russian, Polish and Czechoslovakian descent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was nowhere in that family tree where there was any Indigenous person,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/artsandscience.usask.ca\/profile\/WWheeler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Winona] Wheeler<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tait was so troubled by what she found that, with the support of Wheeler and others, she compiled the information in a document and submitted formal academic misconduct complaints against Bourassa with the U of S [(University of Saskatchewan)] and the <a href=\"https:\/\/cihr-irsc.gc.ca\/e\/193.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CIHR<\/a>. In her email to CBC, Bourassa said the U of S complaint was dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">M\u00e9tis<\/a>. She is the modern-day <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grey_Owl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grey Owl<\/a>,\u201d Tait said, referring to the famous British-born conservationist from the early 1900s who fooled the world into believing he was a Native American man.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Geoff Leo, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indigenous or pretender?<\/a>\u201d <em>CBC News<\/em>, October 27, 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/newsinteractives\/features\/carrie-bourassa-indigenous\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/newsinteractives\/features\/carrie-bourassa-indigenous<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Caroline] Tait said genealogical records show that [Carrie] Bourassa\u2019s supposed Indigenous ancestors were of Russian, Polish and Czechoslovakian descent. \u201cThere was nowhere in that family tree where there was any Indigenous person,\u201d said [Winona] Wheeler. Tait was so troubled by what she found that, with the support of Wheeler and others, she compiled the information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32104,21842,32249,32242,32238,13560,14458,32250,32239,10019,32240],"class_list":["post-62060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-archibald-stansfeld-belaney","tag-canadian-broadcasting-corporation","tag-canadian-institutes-of-health-research","tag-caroline-tait","tag-carrie-bourassa","tag-cbc","tag-cbc-news","tag-cihr","tag-geoff-leo","tag-university-of-saskatchewan","tag-winona-wheeler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62060","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=62060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62061,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62060\/revisions\/62061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}