Why do people fake Indigenous ancestry?
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The Rise and Fall of the Métis Nation
In 1996, when Timmons was in her late 30s, only 860 people in Nova Scotia identified as Métis. By 2016, that number had grown to 23,315, an increase of over 2,600%. That's not all new Métis children being born. How does that happen? Daryl LaRue is a scholar who has written and studied this phenomenon pretty intensively.
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