VIDEO: The Pretendians
To most Canadians, a "pretendian" — a person claiming indigenous ancestry but unable or unwilling to prove it — used to be an unknown identity.
This changed in 2016 with an exposé of Joseph Boyden by then-APTN journalist Jorge Barrera that documented the popular author's shifting claims of Métis, Mi'kmaq, Ojibway, and Nipmuc heritage.
Since then, there …
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