By Maggie Macintosh Local Journalism Initiative Reporter WINNIPEG, MAN-Indigenous academics and artists are calling on the University of Winnipeg to take swift action to address an open identity fraud case and update campus hiring policies so applicants who say they are First Nations, Métis or Inuit back up their claims. Three genealogy reports — one completed by the St. Boniface Historical Society in 2021 and two subsequent searches in 2021 and 2022 by post-secondary researchers with expertise in building family trees — challenge Prof. Julie Nagam’s claims that she is Métis. Nagam, an art professor in the U of W’s history department whose online biography states she is “Métis/German/Syrian,” has not responded to requests for comment. “Everything is called into question with this in terms of academic integrity,” Audra Simpson,…
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