Michelle Latimer’s documentary “Inconvenient Indian” is being pulled from distribution and its upcoming screening at the Sundance Film Festival by the National Film Board.
The decision comes after the accuracy of the filmmaker’s Indigenous identity was called into question last week.
I don’t see what the big deal is.
She should have partnered with that famous Indian Elizabeth Warren.
Do they both have high cheekbones? What about the merits of the film? Nope, not in Identity Fascist Land.
Something tells me somebody didn’t like the contents or argument of the film.
Shamrock – I think Woke liberals like Latimer are suffering a form of Stockholm syndrome but these hostage-takers think that their exclusive-club is big enough, or else the loot gets watered down.
As I noted in the December 18 SDA Reader Tips, Latimer has been ‘transitioning’ to Metis and then Indigenous for years:
In a 2013 Toronto Star interview, Latimer said she grew up in northern Ontario and that her “mother is First Nation” and that she’s “always had a foot in two canoes.”
In a 2014 interview she told the Yorkton Review that she didn’t “want to just be seen as an Aboriginal filmmaker, I want to be seen as a filmmaker.”
By at least 2015, Latimer identified as Métis-Algonquin. The Métis National Council does not recognize the existence of Métis communities in Quebec.
The exclusive club caught on and has started to push back
“Why are you claiming you are from Kitigan Zibi? What is your purpose and intent? What do you have to gain from this?” Commanda said to CBC.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/michelle-latimer-kitigan-zibi-indigenous-identity-1.5845310
Philanthropist responded to my post by noting “The Commandas are very wealthy and powerful indigenous, the filmmaker woman must be getting too big for her boots and they’re going to take her out.”
Apparently, now they have.
I have more Indian blood in me than Pocahontas does, and I have none.
I mean, sadly, I have none.
But I have more than she does.
Well, I will post what I said at NP. My parents were born here, my grand parents were born here, my great grand parents were born here. my great great and so on. I am by every definition an indigenous Canadian. As I have said before, anyone who is younger than me was not here before me. Logic is difficult for many people.
While not born here, I’m here longer than any 55 years old that was born here.
My sons on their mother’s side are the 7th generation Canadians.
If Latimer is not a “blood-quantum Indian”, perhaps she can claim to be a Metis and be rehabilitated, at least partially (in the victim hierarchy, “Indians” seem to rate much higher than Metis). The first Metis had at most 50% “Indian” blood – typically a European father and an “Indian” mother. (When the first Metis were born, they unwittingly created a new race of humans according to Canada’s constitutional drafters in the 1980s).
These days the standard for being officially considered a Metis has become a bit loosey-goosey – if other Metis (not sure of the exact number required) consider you a Metis, then you are a Metis entitled to special government benefits.
Give it a try Michelle. I think it is your only chance for redemption.
Well, Metis are half “not-Indian”.
Yes, the “non-Indian” half is shameful, but not shameful enough to prevent lots of free stuff flowing from the federal government.
Justin Bieber said that his Indian ancestry should get him free gas. The Indians really weren’t comfortable with the truth.
Modern Canadian “Metis” are about 15-sixteeths “not-Indian.” It doesn’t take much to be an “official” Metis. Once you get that card from the government you can legally partake in that time-honoured Indigenous tradition of hunting at night with a spot-light from the road.
Metis status is one of the bigger scams going.
Métis was French and Cree. Now it is applied to any cross-breed that can apply for a club card.
In Browning you will find the odd Blackfoot with blonde hair and blue eyes. Each one with full club membership and the benefits that come with it.
“Métis was French and Cree.”
Quebecois have a small amount of Indian ancestry but they are, by self-centred Metis definition, not Metis. When they started recognizing Indians in Newfoundland, half the population signed up. Everyone who has North American ancestry stretching back more than a few generations likely has Indian ancestry. Too bad Dr. Mengele is dead. He could sort it all out for the government.
Scar: The former “white” government of South Africa (until May 10/94) had a bureaucracy that worked on racial classification. Some of those bureaucrats might still be around. We could bring them to Canada and put them in charge of official race classification.
This was one of their tests:
“Over the years, certain unofficial tests were also set up to determine the race of individuals who either appealed their classification or whose classification was challenged by others. The most infamous of these was the “pencil test”, which said that if a pencil placed in one’s hair fell out, he or she was white. If it fell out with shaking, ‘ colored’, and if it stayed put, he or she was ‘Black’.”
https://www.thoughtco.com/racial-classification-under-apartheid-43430
CBC investigation last week challenged those claims and raised issues over her self-identification.
I did an investigation of CBC and found their self-identification as a news network is egregiously mendacious.
So, if they present a minimum amount of actual news in their “news”, say the “Warren limit” (i. e., 1/1024), does that mean they qualify as a “news network”?
Roman Polanski, a child rapist, doesn’t get his films pulled, he gets a standing ovation.
Pulsing Ovary!.. Like PrincessPetuniaTurdle does.
This type of violent bigotry against race fluid people must stop!
This obvious atrocity by white “settlers” calls for a ten year, sixty million dollar inquiry with a tearful apology by Big Chief Gay Eagle With No Balls. Break out the drums, feathers, and chants to the sacred tree frog.
And the SacredBottle of Hermit.
“INdigenous” “Canadians”: hating everybody else for 14,000 years and counting.
There is a weird thing about Clovis DNA. One of the closer DNA matches to my central German DNA in ancient times seems to be Clovis. Maybe I’m reading the charts wrong. If Germans colonized North America, do I get free gas.
The woman wanted to take advantage of calling herself what she is not.
That is deplorable.
The racism that the media cartel promotes is deplorable too.
It is because one race has advantage over another just because …. take your pick of reasons ……
Don’t really care, not interested to watch the thing.
The woman wanted to take advantage of calling herself what she is not.
That is deplorable.
It worked for Elizabeth Warren, didn’t it?
A local “tribe” got a farm given to them by the province for “food security” purposes and some other silly notions. Then the chief said that their growing population has reached over 1100. Just how many of these people are there? I’m starting to think it might make sense to give them all a final payout and make them sign a “no more bitching ever again” agreement. It’d be cheaper than the never ending whining and moaning.
Yep. They should get their payout and after they blow it all in a few weeks … go live on the streets of Seattle. The Seattle city council are … compassionate (sic) … people.
That was the 1980 White paper authored by none other than Jean Chretien. One time reparation payout, and then all Indians are full Canadian citizens henceforth with no special status or privileges.
James: There will never be a “final payout” model employed in Canada. One of the most recent land claim settlements in Canada was with the Nisga’a people (less than 2,000 people) in Northwestern B.C. It came into effect in 2000.
The treaty gave the Nisga’a people land, a lot of money ($196 million) and other benefits, but federal taxpayers are still required annually to fund a lot of services for the Nisga’a people through something called a Fiscal Financing Agreement.
“Health, education, social services and other services are now provided under a Fiscal Financing Agreement.”
https://www.nisgaanation.ca/understanding-treaty
Since Justin’s Liberals removed the requirement for public transparency on money given to First Nations, it is probably not possible to find out how much money is still given annually to the Nisga’a people, but since the services funded by the Fiscal Financing Agreement are the most expensive ones (e.g., health, education), it is safe to say it is a lot of money. Bottom-line: a land-claim settlement with a First Nation is never the end of payments from taxpayers.
The lawyers for FirstSiberianExtortionists are Goverment of Canada Appointed and paid, and the best our Taxpayers money can buy1
“give them all a final payout ”
A few bands were bought out in the past. They haven’t gone away. They whine twice as loud.
In today’s Canada, we are to honor native culture and ignore blemishes such as slavery, genocide, famine, low life expectancy, and technological limits on carrying capacity. Conversely, we must focus on all the shortcomings of western culture, a culture that incidentally eliminated or improved all of the above. In such an inverted morality, it seems logical that the extent of racial impurity would dictate precedence over the content of character and worthiness of someone’s work.
None of this is to imply tolerance of the deplorable legacy of apartheid inherent in the Indian Act which remains as more than a blemish on all Canadians every day it persists and periodically reinforced by the SCOC.
I like to remind my 50% Canadian Native son in law that … “his people” didn’t have a written language. He says “yeah … but I can legally dip-net salmon!”. And the both of us go-away happy.
The English language contains about 170,000 words not counting ones that have become obsolete. Many native languages have less than 2,000.
So what conclusion can you draw from one fact? Well maybe the natives didn’t need a word to identify something they had never seen, heard or thought of. Fair enough but I don’t think you could reasonably equate the 2 languages as equal to one another whether language is just spoke or written.
I have many native friends. I’ve worked with them, played music together, hunted, trapped, been to their homes. I am very sympathetic to their plight but I didn’t cause it and I do what I can to help but they need to deal with their issues. Relying on white guilt will only take you so far.
Languages evolve and add to their vocabulary through various means and circumstances.
It can come as a result of war. For hundreds of years, parts of what we now know as England were attacked and, sometimes, conquered and occupied by various peoples including the Romans and certain Nordic tribes.
It can also come as a result of trade. I was reminded of that the last time I watched my copy of the TV series The Jewel in the Crown. In his comments for one episode, Alistair Cooke mentioned how many English terms came as a result of the Raj in India.
Relying on White Guilt will get you incredibly far.
It is, in fact, the over-riding official government policy on every issue in every “Western” (ie. “White”) nation on Earth. White Guilt has become the rallying cry and organizing principle of every left-wing, liberal political party on the planet.
Chris
I agree that playing the white guilt card has paid dividends to this point. I think long term it will produce diminishing results.
Too many things are in play here including the perfidious nature of the players
English is a brutal agglomeration of old German and French
When different nationalities and cultures are in close proximity to each other, as is the case in much of Europe, one language acquiring terms and phrases from other can quite easily occur.
Don’t forget that French was the language of many European courts at one time. Also, King George I of England came from what would now be a part of Germany.
Even earlier, much of northern France was English territory and remained so for a number of centuries. William the Conqueror was himself from Normandy.
Kenji – if you’ve got a source of dip-net salmon, go for it. No need to remind son-in-law that – if he’s from certain West coast tribes, they were slave owners and – when got carried away at potlatches – would kill their slaves to show their contempt for worldly goods.
Kill them and eat them. The last cases of cannibalism in Canada were the west coast tribes in the 1860’s
ABT – it may be apocryphal, but there was a story that a chief from a “formerly” cannibal tribe visited the Western Front during WW I. When shown a battlefield full of dead and dying soldiers, he asked his guide “do you eat them?”. “Of course not” said the guide, horrified. The chief’s response: “What a waste.”.
“95 percent of Europeans could not read and write until a few generations ago.”
The English and Germans were quite literate as long as 500 years ago. Catholicism hid the Bible, which was in Latin, from parishioners. Protestants encouraged the reading of the Bible in the local language and set up schools. My pig farmer ancestors likely attended school in the 1760s as these is a record of a village school. Before that I simply don’t know.
I lay claim to Swedish Royal lineage! What does THAT get me? Where’s MY big screen TV!? PS … nothing less than 4K Ultra HD please.
Royalty? You eat your pickled herring with a fork instead of your fingers.
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gimme that brave new world…
“Never a Social Worker around when you really need one.”
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God helps those who help themselves, Kenji-San! You have to get your T.V in the time-honoured traditional Swedish/Nordic way, by trashing your nearest Ikea store and making off with one yourself…!
Damned Danes used to KNOW all this!!! Obviously, civilisation has diluted the gene pool…
Have a great Christmas anyway,, Danegeld or no Danegeld.
LEGAL DISCLAIMER: I am neither seriously suggesting nor endorsing this act… Poor Ikea has enough problems!
I used to drink like an Indian. Does that qualify for a card.
You’ve obviously never been to Thunder Bay or Winnipeg.
Another tiresome repetition of the Grey Owl fraud.
Grey Owl at least lived the life of the local Indians. And his writings about same were good.
She shall be rushing to the Human Rights Tribunals,to have CBC sanctioned as racist for doubting her self declared identity.
CBC Identifies as a “News something” yet operates as a progressive propaganda agency.
And claims a “mandate” with less than 4% share of “Newz” market..
And CBC lectures us should we dare to draw our own conclusions as the the “Gender” of any of the sick bent things they spotlight..
And indeed as the identity wars morph into victim of the day squabbles ,buy more popcorn.
Investigative journalism about media manipulation in the year media manipulation showed that investigative journalism was media manipulation.
Someone mentioned Elizabeth Warren. This situation IS similar because both were proud of their family stories about
Indian ancestry. Which both probably have.
But they didn’t realize that being Native is a legal status; natives don’t validate with DNA testing [which doesn’t equate
to family ancestry anyway].
The NFB’s decision will ensure that the film gets reduced showing.
“Which both probably have.”
Liz Warren is as “Native” as almost every person who has/had a blood relative who was living on the North American continent in the first part of the 20th century………
“Two weeks ago (Oct. 2018), Sen. Elizabeth Warren released the results of a genetic test showing she has a small but detectable amount of Native American DNA. The report concluded there is “strong evidence” she had a Native American ancestor approximately six to 10 generations ago.” (ie. 1-in-64 to 1-in-1024)
“…she has at least one Native American ancestor, although (the DNA report) cannot reveal whether that individual was a member of any specific tribe. The results were not peer-reviewed, as they would be in a formal scientific publication…”
“We don’t know all the details about how the test was done because the Stanford geneticist, Carlos Bustamante, did not respond to repeated requests for an interview.”
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/10/the-facts-on-elizabeth-warrens-dna-test/
Ms Latimer should have her DNA analyzed. If she has native ancestry it will be identified. She probably has heard of Elizabeth Warren.
My neighbor’s kid couldn’t get into university. He re applied by checking that magic “indigenous” box. Not only did his son get accepted into every university he applied to, they shovelled money at him by the wheelbarrow full. When I asked what he would do if they wanted proof, he laughed saying, no one has the balls to check my heritage. Oh I forgot to mention, my neighbor was eastern European.
All the Eastern European Jews with Spanish names they acquired before the Inquisition get into way better schools as Hispanics than they would as Jews. e.g. Shimon Perez.
This embarrassing situation highlights the hagiography of the mediocre talents by the salon white classes.
Merry Christmas to you too.
Or Winter Solstice which ever turn your crank.