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Domaine de Grand Pré’s Recipe for Award-Winning Service and Hospitality | SaltWireThe answer came on the next line: It doesn’t look like she’s who she has been saying she is, for decades, someone born into Canada’s Indigenous community.ANALYSIS: The curse of the cigar store Indian: recent revelations about Buffy Sainte-Marie raise important questions about Indigenous authenticity

“They should be ashamed. Why not focus on what is happening now and in the past to Indigenous people?” Natural disasters, which experts said were made worse by climate change, were also in the headlines. That’s pretty much a daily thing now. The ongoing tragedy in Israel and the Gaza Strip was certainly in the news, too.

True, the First Nation did adopt Sainte-Marie as a member, and they have said they stand behind her. And they certainly have the right to decide who is one of them. “I think CBC is just swatting at ghosts on this one and I think Aboriginals will tell us if they accept her or if she’s an appropriating colonizer. Seems very oppressor for CBC to just assume the responsibility of telling them they should reject her.”

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