Michelle Latimer, right, is a Canadian woman who has won awards for her documentary,
Inconvenient Indian before people started to questions whether she was really, even partially, of Canadian Indian descent, as her grandfather had told her she was.
Her grandfather had used the term Métis
, which is French for mixed and is the same thing as the Mexican term
mestizo.
When people started to question this, she apologized for not confirming her ancestry. a mistake. As Vox Day points out in his book
never do this. Her fil, which seems to be the usual anti-white propaganda was set to have its international premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, but was indefinitely pulled from distribution by the National Film Board of Canada while Latimer s identity is investigated according to WikiPedia.
Filmmaker Michelle Latimer addresses questions about her Indigenous ancestry
Filmmaker Michelle Latimer is photographed in Toronto, on Wednesday, August 19, 2020. Latimer says she made a mistake in naming the First Nations community of Kitigan Zibi as part of her ancestry without formally verifying it. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young December 17, 2020 - 1:37 PM
TORONTO - Canadian filmmaker Michelle Latimer says she made a mistake in naming the First Nations community of Kitigan Zibi as part of her ancestry without formally verifying it.
The Thunder Bay, Ont.-raised writer-director has issued a statement on Facebook to address what she says are recent questions raised about her ancestry.