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Pretendians and Partindians have allied with universities, the federal bureaucracies and some of Canada’s most expensive law firms to extort billions from well-meaning taxpayers, by shaming those same taxpayers.. Meanwhile, the majority of authentic Indians remain locked in hopelessness. Frances Widdowson’s “Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry” remains the best explanation of how this giant scam works.

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The deck of cards are falling fast. Canadians no longer believe FN Métis or Inuit people anymore. They have hurt this country our reputation and the amount of money these people get is grossly obscene. Canada paid 45 million for dead dogs, up in Nunavut, we can’t afford our military but hey the Inuit get 45 million for dead dogs. With all the land claims all native people will put a stop to Canada selling our resources to make money. Who ever controls the land controls the country. I blame all of this chaos on not only Justin Trudeau and the stupid liberals that are supporting him but the UN & the WEF who do not have a clue what it is like to live with these people. The time of separate but unequal societies need to end cancel the IA, Gladue and all the other special rights and privileges. Canadians have had enough. Time for them to get to work stop complaining and live in the real world for once.

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Premier Eby is doing his utmost in BC to give the farm away, as they say.

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Pity !!! At least Buffy St. Marie could sing. This Pretendian is just a mendacious and pretentious wooden nickel consumed by fraudulently advancing a false identity for personal gain. Still, she is just a visible poster child manifestation of the problem. The real culprits are those fraudsters who, motivated by political correctness and appearance, enable this scam. As repulsive as Murray's actions are they pale in comparison to that of Trudeau and his mindless minions.

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Murray is just another in a long line of Indiginots. Looks like all the (outstanding) research Nina Green did came from scouring public records... how is this fraud Murray perpetrated not on the pages of every newspaper in the land??

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That would undermine the Liberal policy of showing respect to indigenous people and the veracity of indigenous "Knowing"

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Great research and article by Nina! I was also recently prompted to do some genealogy research on Murray. I didn't get nearly this far!

Incidentally, an article by CBC reporter Brett Forester today (Dec 2), https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/coroner-ontario-residential-schools-investigation-1.7396884 so annoyed me that I did some research on a child (Effie Smith) whose death was one of the examples he used as a "disappeared child" (clearly not!) not documented by the NTRC. I found her death certificate within about ten minutes, and family trees on FamilySearch.Org and Ancestry.ca. I then found Nina's detailed work investigating this child's death which occurred as the result of a tragic playground accident. I have used Nina's work (in part) to write to the reporter and to the CBC Ombudsman to complain about the reporter's apparent bias and shoddy work.

Because Forester mentioned Murray with approval, I sent him a link to this article on Murray (copied to the ombudsman) strongly suggesting he needs to read it and think about it.

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Great post, Janice. The Ontario gov't, like little kids in a candy store, don't want to be left out of this great political drama of Res School genocide so they jump in with both feet, throw away taxpayer dollars and say, "it was the right thing to do". That is exactly what MPP Greg Rickford said after he gave away 70 mil to undisclosed sources for finding unmarked graves.

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Kimberly took a lesson from Buffy? 🤔

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Well, she is wearing the obligatory earrings for effect.....

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i have a pair of sterling silver and lapis earings with a bear paw and feather on them that were given to me years ago....

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Too many of us have crazy mythological histories created by deceased family members which were not based in reality. People need to be okay with being plain boring humans.

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I've read this article several times. I just want to be clear. Does Murray have no indigenous ancesters at all?

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Records show that her paternal great great grandparents were Algonquin (note, not Mohawk). Her paternal great grandfather Alfred Sam Murray is something of a mystery, as he is absent from census records where he should appear with his family. Where he does appear (in the 1911 census, as Nina notes) he is entered as "Ecossais" and his wife Diana as French. His parents (Kimberly's great great grandparents) did live at Oka in 1901. The Mohawk Nation can confer membership on anyone it chooses, so it may be perfectly legitimate for Kimberly Murray to say that she is a member (and I doubt she would do so without that nation's blessing). For her to say she is Mohawk, though, seems a stretch. Perhaps an honourary Mohawk?

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Thanks for the clarification Joan and welcome back. Just wondering, with Murrays involvement with the Mohawk Mother's law suite against McGill for MKULTRA experimentation and murder of indigenous children, is it remotely possible that Murray herself may have been a victim of the CIA's mind control programs, which could account for her current dysfunctional cognitive impairments ????

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Shhh. Not back, just popped in : )

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My reading is that she does not have any identifiable indigenous ancestors in records dating back to her great-grandparents. We don't know beyond that.

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These PRETENDIANS continue to cause more damage than what they are worth. Looks like she did her pretending to obtain University favors.

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Pause the fn-grifting indeed.

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Nina Green seems to have hit quite the jackpot. CBC has the inclination to take on the shaky ancestry claims of the high and mighty, I wonder if there is a CBC producer who can pitch this important story to a management team? (I’m doubtful.)

A story like this comes at an interesting time in our public dialogue regarding Indigenous relationships with mainstream Canadians. Ms. Murray and MP Leah Gazan are pushing to bring criminal sanctions to anyone who engages in “denialism” against the IRS experience. Murray and Gazan feel that they have the moral high ground and all knowing power to adjudicate what is true and false. When the leadership of Indigenous politicians are seen to be compromised they not only have some explaining to do but are in no position to truncate public conversations that are legitimately pursuing the truth.

BTW: The public conversation has also changed significantly with the passing of Murray Sinclair. Mr. Sinclair was the ground zero spokesperson for Indigenous dialogue, his musings were sought after and respected and provided a lot of cover for the numerous hangers on, including Ms. Murray. There is no where to hide from scrutiny now.

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If anyone cared to investigate the damage the billions of dollars this Liberal/NDP government has squandered believing they are improving life on reserves only needs to see the alcohol, drug, violence and child abuse taking place! Seventy-five percent are not receiving the benefits while the other twenty-five percent live like kings and queens off the reserve providing their family and friends RVs, Boats, four vacations a year, and jobs to family and friends that help keep the chiefs and councils in power! Corruption they have learnt from the best Trudeau himself! White lawyers become millionaires pushing the Chief's agenda to seek more taxpayers' money!

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