just found out one of my “Indigenous” profs is pretendian :(
for starters let me just say I’m not Indigenous and I’ve since graduated from this college. I’m just making this post to:
- say how I’m so disappointed and saddened to hear this news bc of how outspoken he was abt Indigenous rights and voices and it pisses me off how someone could say all that just to be profiting off of that lie the whole time.
- at the end of my last term, he gifted me some white sage. I once felt very honoured to have been gifted it and I haven’t burnt it, it’s just been sitting on a shell next to some of my precious keepsakes that hold spiritual meaning to me. I am wanting to bring it to the lake to gift it back to the Earth bc I don’t want to hold on to it anymore since I learnt the truth. is that appropriate? does anyone have any other suggestions I can do with it?
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EDIT for some clarification: yes, he was fully identifying as Anishinaabeg from Wiikwemkoong and was one of the main Indigenous studies professors at the college. I don’t think I should say what college it is bc as far as I’m aware they’re still conducting an investigation as he’s suspended, but I suspect he’ll be fired and then there will be some sort of PR announcement and local articles published. I found out serendipitously by just looking up his name yesterday (I’d say why I was looking him up but it’s so roundabout and random I don’t think it’s really necessary to recount) and seeing posts made about him calling him out and showing historical evidence for where his family came from from online documents.