Michelle Latimer resigns from CBC s Trickster week after addressing questions of Indigenous ancestry theglobeandmail.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theglobeandmail.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
George Pimentel/Getty Images I now realize that I made a mistake in naming Kitigan Zibi as my family’s community, says Michelle Latimer, whose documentary Inconvenient Indian is headed to Sundance after bowing in Toronto.
Top Canadian film director Michelle Latimer has apologized after coming under scrutiny for claiming Indigenous family roots in a Quebec Algonquin community when promoting her documentary
Inconvenient Indian ahead of its recent world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.
The feature, an adaptation of Thomas King s book
Inconvenient Indian, in which the American-born Canadian writer meditates on what it means to be Indian in North America, will next have a U.S. bow at the Sundance Film Festival next month.
Michelle Latimer resigns from Trickster following Indigenous identity doubts
Michelle Latimer resigns from Trickster following Indigenous identity doubts
The filmmaker has apologized for not verifying her ancestral connections to the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg community By Radheyan Simonpillai
Samuel Engelking
Award-winning filmmaker Michelle Latimer has resigned from the series Trickster on Monday (December 21), following a CBC investigation that raised doubt about her claim to Indigenous identity.
“I have listened to my community and feel that stepping away from the production is the appropriate course of action,” Latimer says in a post on Facebook. “I stand by who I am and by my family’s history, but I also understand what is being asked of me.”
Michelle Latimer s contentious claim of Indigenous ancestry has understandably angered our community theglobeandmail.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theglobeandmail.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Métis National Council does not recognize the existence of Métis communities in Quebec.
Claim based on oral history
In her emailed responses, Latimer said her claim rested on the oral history of her maternal grandfather. My grandfather loved these lands and knew them like the back of his hand and his stories became an important part of our oral history, wrote Latimer.
Latimer did not provide any details on the source of her grandfather s identity beyond seeing a family surname in a Kitigan Zibi census. She also directed CBC News to a photo gallery on a Kitigan Zibi community website which, she said, included photos of family members.