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EDMONTON — A First Nations leader in Alberta is questioning Premier Danielle Smith's claim of Indigenous heritage.Chief Tony Alexis of Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation, west of Edmonton, said Friday that a true Indigenous person would not go against treaty people.
"What we're realizing is that anybody wants to be a part of the Indigenous community if there's a benefit." The premier's office issued a statement following the story saying,"Smith hasn’t done a deep dive into her ancestry but is proud of her roots." APTN says Smith claimed to be a person of"mixed-race ancestry" in 2012, when she was leader of the Wildrose Party."She was a member of the Cherokee Nation that had been forcibly relocated to Kansas from the southeastern United States in the 1830s by the U.S. government, a terrible stain on the history of America known as the Trail of Tears,” Smith said, according to legislative records obtained by APTN.
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