Indigenous scholar rejected for job over lack of paperwork

An award-winning Cree-Métis professor who grew up in northern Saskatchewan will not be moving to his home province’s university because administrators demanded certain paperwork to prove he’s Indigenous, writes Jason Warick for CBC News.

“I wanted to come to the University of Saskatchewan. This is all pretty disappointing,” Réal Carrière said.

Critics say Carrière’s ordeal is an example of misguided over-reaction by University of Saskatchewan administrators to an earlier case of an Indigenous identity controversy involving former University of Saskatchewan professor Carrie Bourassa. Indigenous studies faculty say they’re angry about the Carrière situation, but also fear existing staff might soon face these new “colonial” requirements.
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