USask community health professor’s claims of Indigenous ancestry questioned
“Our community knows who I am and embraces me. In our Métis ways, in the event of a loss, community members would adopt the individual who had no family and they would then automatically be seen as family. We see this as custom adoption. Those adoptions were more meaningful and have stronger bonds than colonial adoptions,” read the statement which was posted to the Morning Star Lodge research lab’s website.
Global News reached out to Bourassa for an interview, but she said she is declining media requests at this time.Story continues below advertisement “These kinds of ameliorative opportunities and programs are an important part of addressing the historical disenfranchisement and silencing of Indigenous peoples and their voices, including the Métis,” the MN-S statement said.Bourassa acknowledges that she isn’t identified as Métis based on MN-S standards, but that she is part of other local Métis organizations which aren’t overseen by MN-S.
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