Pretendians are a strange lot. I mean, imitation is sincere flattery — but deliberate deception is despicable, and wishful imagining not much better.
Buffy Sainte-Marie is legally Cree. Her origin story may or may not be true, though.
Her adopted Cree parents said in a statement that she is their family: “We chose her and she chose us.”
“To us, that holds far more weight than any paper documentation or colonial record-keeping ever could,” they said. “We are a sovereign nation, a sovereign people — Canada does not get to determine who we claim as family, and neither does the media.”
Pretendians are a strange lot. I mean, imitation is sincere flattery — but deliberate deception is despicable, and wishful imagining not much better.
Buffy Sainte-Marie is legally Cree. Her origin story may or may not be true, though.
Her adopted Cree parents said in a statement that she is their family: “We chose her and she chose us.”
“To us, that holds far more weight than any paper documentation or colonial record-keeping ever could,” they said. “We are a sovereign nation, a sovereign people — Canada does not get to determine who we claim as family, and neither does the media.”