Posted on 10/28/2023 5:01:10 PM PDT by dynachrome
Fat chance... I think they exposed that years ago. She was full of it... Just like Buffy.
Did you know her personally? Or are you repeating something you read.
That is not my experience knowing her.
Jjotto - I don’t know who you are or who you pretend to be but now you’re claiming mental health problems? Shame on you.
Ida Kaminsky?
Good to hear. I knew one of her exes. Two sides, I guess.
You need to learn more about what happens on Indian reservations. Yes, there is a lot of drugs and a lot of drug trafficking between the U.S. and Canada. There is also a lot of other kinds of trafficking.
In the US in the 60’s if you were a couple without a child you’d go to South America, later you’d go to China to adopt. Back in the 40’s you’d go to Canada.
BTW - if you want to see it first hand, go up to Massena NY to see the insanity of the Indian nation. They have their own rules, their own courts and their own justice system. Check out their boats on the St. Lawrence Seaway. They have by far the fastest boats. I wonder why. Not.
My point was, the settlers from Siberia are no more “indigenous” that the sixth and seventh generations of settlers from France and the British Isles, and that the country of “Canada” is not the creation of the former groups of settlers at all, it is a purely European creation.
“Native Americans” has the same problem, the settlers from Siberia were never “native” to a place called “America” until Europeans created it.
So none of them...? ;-)
Look, I ain’t an Indian. But I got a tiny bit of Indian blood in me. (I suppose most Americans actually do if they looked into it carefully enough.) My Indian blood is from Huron Indians. They ain’t Russians.
I get the point you’re making, but you’re over-shooting. There was no “Canada” before there were the British and French. But they’re called “First NationS” for a reason: no-one ever claimed they formed a single nation.
She’s Armenian.........
I don’t know whose version is true, hers or CBC, but I find it interesting that it seems to matter so much. She obviously felt some bond with the Crees of Saskatchewan. Apparently her (adoptive) mother claimed to have native ancestry also (the Nova Scotia tribe). I would be interested in knowing why she invented this story, if it turns out to be invented; the words CBC and research have never appeared in a sentence before so I will reserve final judgment.
Now, if CBC is into looking at ancestry, there’s this fellow in Ottawa, Justin I think his first name is, and no disputes about maternity but ...
Read the article.
Not biological sister.
“She looks native...”
She does. I wonder if it was the plumber or the the appliance installers...
A lot of 60s Woodstock hippy chicks became “Injuns” after they fell in love with buffalo wings and beads.
Every St. Patrick’s Day, a slew of people who have not a drop of Irish blood claim to be of Irish descent and we who do don’t give a rat’s patootie. Because we’re not whiny little pussies with inferiority complexes.
Good musician. Good with makeup, too, apparently - she still has mostly black hair in her 80s?
Maybe her ululating singing style got it all started: It wouldn't surprise me if the agent that discovered her associated her style with American Indians, and with the 60's being what they were (hippies trying to "tune in" to nature, like they imagined American Indians had), the agent figured if her act projected Indian tropes the young people would "tune in" to her music. It worked - the kids ate it up, myself included. She began making a good living, and that was enough for her to persist in the act year after year after year. To her credit she did dedicate part of her energy, time, and money to making that image beneficial to real Indians.
It is sad however that she ended up threatening to bear false witness on her brother to keep the charade going. I suppose that was a degenerate aspect of Hollywood that talked her into doing that.
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