Aboriginal UBC professor tries to ruin career of students who criticizes her
(nationalpost.com)
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Evidently, Dr. Amie 'Wolf', who reprimands her students as colonial setters and white supremists, faked her aboriginal ancestry. Her real name is Williamson.
Daryl Leroux is an expert on Canadian history and has published on the social patterns of French Canadians claiming indigenous identity . A genealogical tree of Williamson's family based on census records indicates half of her family are immigrants from Poland, and the other half are mixed western European (English, French, Slovakian, Hungarian) settlers in a non- indigenous community in Quebec and Saskatchewan. At the time of census records, even people with mixed indigenous ancestry were noted as having been mixed, with the exception of those with very distant 17th century ancestors.
Her maternal grandmother and grandfather are Polish, her paternal grandfather is French/English Ontarian, and her paternal grandmother is half Slovak/Hungarian, half french Canadian. Not even one great grandparent is listed as indigenous or even Metis. Even if her Franco Quebecois great grandfather is somehow distantly a quarter or half indigenous, that makes Williamson at most 1/16 indigenous.
There is also zero indication of any potential great, great, great grandparents having been specifically Mi'qmak either. She has in the past claimed family ancestries that are Cree and Saskatchewan Metis, far from the Mi'kmaq
She just seems to have pulled a Latimer. Saw some family from a rural Quebec community, assumed they must have indigenous ancestry, picked a random indigenous group (who actually does not historically live in that area), and clung to it.