Published 22 November 2021 at 08.38
Abroad. Carrie Bourassa, one of the most famous representatives of the Indians in Canada, is not really Indian but white. The lie of life has been revealed by CBC News.
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Carrie Bourassa has made a quick career as a “strong Native American woman” and is currently a professor at the Faculty of Public Health and Epidemiology at the University of Saskatchewan.
At the university, she also leads the research group Morning Star Lodge, which focuses on the health of the indigenous people.
During his career, Bourassa has claimed to belong to the tribes Métis, Anishinaabe and Tlingit. She has told about how she grew up among alleged Native American older relatives and was constantly exposed to “racism”.
– My name is Mortgonstjärna Björn, from the clan Björn, she told with trembling in her voice in a performance on TEDx -Talk in 2019, and broke down when she posted the text about her difficult upbringing as a Native American and racism.
But now her colleagues reveal that Carrie Bourassa is not a Native American at all but that she is white and comes from Russia , Poland and the Czech Republic.
Bourassa now claims instead that she was adopted into an Indian tribe in adulthood.
She has now been poked from the health institute CIHR, where she was head with focus on the health of indigenous peoples.
Carrie Bourassa is called “Rachel Dolezal of Canada”, referring to the female anti-racist profile in the United States who lied that she was African.