{"id":62526,"date":"2021-12-06T01:23:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T01:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62526"},"modified":"2021-12-06T01:54:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T01:54:37","slug":"how-disgraced-health-expert-carrie-bourassa-passed-as-indigenous-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62526","title":{"rendered":"How disgraced health expert Carrie Bourassa passed as indigenous for years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/01\/how-carrie-bourassa-passed-herself-off-as-indigenous-for-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>How disgraced health expert Carrie Bourassa passed as indigenous for years<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Post<\/a><br \/>\n2021-12-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/isareport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Isabel Vincent<\/strong><\/a>, Investigative reporter<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/4137224153001\/6aIMRO3kiI_default\/index.html?videoId=6284366366001\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.usask.ca\/profiles\/che\/carrie-bourassa.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carrie Bourassa\u2019s<\/a> Instagram page describes her as an \u201cIndigenous feminist\u201d and \u201cproud <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Metis<\/a>\u201d with an addiction to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latte\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lattes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Only her penchant for caffeine was true.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from Carrie Bourassa\u2019s team said \u201cshe has not falsely identified as Indigenous nor taken space away from Indigenous peoples.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bourassa, a professor in the department of community health and epidemiology at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Saskatchewan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Saskatchewan<\/a> and a leading expert on indigenous issues, has been exposed as a fraud. A family tree prepared by a group of academics who were suspicious of her ancestral claims shows that Bourassa is of Swiss, Hungarian, Polish and Czechoslovakian origins and has not one ounce of indigenous blood&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/01\/how-carrie-bourassa-passed-herself-off-as-indigenous-for-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bourassa, a professor in the department of community health and epidemiology at the University of Saskatchewan and a leading expert on indigenous issues, has been exposed as a fraud. A family tree prepared by a group of academics who were suspicious of her ancestral claims shows that Bourassa is of Swiss, Hungarian, Polish and Czechoslovakian origins and has not one ounce of indigenous blood.<\/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":[32242,32238,14458,32239,32595,21966,21965],"class_list":["post-62526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-passing-2","tag-caroline-tait","tag-carrie-bourassa","tag-cbc-news","tag-geoff-leo","tag-isabel-vincent","tag-new-york-post","tag-the-new-york-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62526","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=62526"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62535,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62526\/revisions\/62535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}