My Langara Reconciliation Carving Journey: Indigenous Identity - the Joseph Boyden saga continues-Updated!!

So I have been watching this play out. To be honest I did not and really do not know very much about Joseph Boyden, basically just what I have learned in the last little while. I have been sharing the different articles and trying to understand it all. I didn't want to make a judgement, I just wanted to put the info out there and hope people will read it for themselves and form their own opinion.

The radio podcasts are really good so definitely listen.

I posted one of my old posts at the bottom. This is a very complicated subject and I have thought about many of these issues.

I have had a very hard time tracing my roots and part of the process is being a part of the Reconciliation Carving Course I am taking. I feel/felt very disconnected and that is why I am trying to enlighten myself and other about what has happened and is happening. I have thought about the DNA, but I myself have not reached out to the Songhees Nation yet and I am not sure about my Great Grandma's side because part of it's in the US and well it's complicated... but people have reached out to me..and there's supposed to be a big family reunion in 2020 so I am looking forward to connecting with people.
https://mylangaratrccarvingjourney.blogspot.ca/2016/11/enos-poirier-ancestry-kalapuya-iroquois.html

I had to learn about the different terms/labels and why they are used, why it would be nice not to have them in someways but how very important they are in other. It is an extremely complex issue and if one good thing can come from this is that it started a conversation.

A very very important conversation has begun and as we go forth into this supposed 150 years of so called Canada then it is a very good conversation to have and one that everyone needs to be talking about, regardless if you are indigenous or not.

Indigenous identity and the case of Joseph Boyden
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-january-5-2017-1.3921340/indigenous-identity-and-the-case-of-joseph-boyden-1.3922327

What Colour Is Your Beadwork, Joseph Boyden?
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/what-colour-is-your-beadwork-joseph-boyden

Joseph Boyden must take responsibility for misrepresenting heritage, says Indigenous writer
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday-edition-1.3914159/joseph-boyden-must-take-responsibility-for-misrepresenting-heritage-says-indigenous-writer-1.3907253

Author Joseph Boyden defends Indigenous heritage after investigation
http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/author-joseph-boyden-defends-heritage-1.3914367?cmp=rss

This is a related blogpost I did a while back. Be warned I was really struggling this day so please be open-minded.

Labels, Thanksgiving, Truth, Reconciliation, Art & SOCIAL MEDIA
https://mylangaratrccarvingjourney.blogspot.ca/2016/10/labels-thanksgiving-truth.html

Other related posts I wrote
https://mylangaratrccarvingjourney.blogspot.ca/2016/09/my-portuguese-metis-and-songhees.html
https://mylangaratrccarvingjourney.blogspot.ca/2016/09/my-heritage-and-7-generations.html
https://mylangaratrccarvingjourney.blogspot.ca/2016/09/portuguese-joe-silvey-portuguese-john.html
https://mylangaratrccarvingjourney.blogspot.ca/2016/09/sculpture-honours-portuguese-coast.html
https://mylangaratrccarvingjourney.blogspot.ca/2016/11/forgiveness-signs-double-rainbows.html

Oh I had to add this link

"This isn't Dances with Salmon you know!!"
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2015/06/this-isnt-dances-with-salmon-you-know.html

Updated Jan 11/2017

Thursday, January 5, 2017

Indigenous Identity - the Joseph Boyden saga continues-Updated!!