\u00a0The Canadian Press The Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations says a lot of talk about the issue of so-called Indigenous identity fraud is based around apprehensions people have about the government defining who is \u2014 and who isn’t \u2014 a rights-holder. “The notion of Indigenous identity is obviously very complicated and layered with many centuries of colonialism,” Gary Anandasangaree said in an interview Thursday. “It really isn’t the role of the federal government to define what an Indigenous person is, and who is not.” But as the recognition of Indigenous rights often comes from the federal government, he and Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu have been increasingly under pressure from all three federally recognized groups of Indigenous Peoples \u2014 First Nations, Inuit and M\u00e9tis \u2014 to either butt out of the… <\/p>\n
\u00a0The Canadian Press The Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations says a lot of talk about the issue of so-called Indigenous identity fraud is based around apprehensions people have about the government defining who is \u2014 and who isn’t \u2014 a rights-holder. “The notion of Indigenous identity is obviously very complicated and layered with many centuries of colonialism,” Gary Anandasangaree said in an interview Thursday. “It really isn’t the role of the federal government to define what an Indigenous person is, and who is not.” But as the recognition of Indigenous rights often comes from the federal government, he and Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu have been increasingly under pressure from all three federally recognized groups of Indigenous Peoples \u2014 First Nations, Inuit and M\u00e9tis \u2014 to either butt out of the... <\/p>\n