Boyden controversy part of larger debate over indigenous identity, says Liberal MP Ouellette

Discussion over Joseph Boyden's ancestry is emotional and distracts from many important issues facing First Nations in Canada, say others.

Questions have come to head over author Joseph Boyden, pictured here on Parliament Hill in 2010, and his claims to indigenous identity. The Hill Times Photograph by Cynthia Münster

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

January 30, 2017

Internationally acclaimed author and high-profile indigenous peoples advocate Joseph Boyden's ancestry controversy may be a "painful conversation," but it's also a "good start to a long debate" over the bigger question of "what makes us indigenous," says indigenous Liberal MP Robert-Falcon Ouell...

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