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, M\u00e9tis or Inuit back up their claims. Three genealogy reports \u2014 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 \u2014 challenge Prof. Julie Nagam\u2019s claims that she is M\u00e9tis. Nagam, an art professor in the U of W\u2019s history department whose online biography states she is \u201cM\u00e9tis\/German\/Syrian,\u201d has not responded to requests for comment. \u201cEverything is called into question with this in terms of academic integrity,\u201d Audra Simpson,… <\/p>\n
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, M\u00e9tis or Inuit back up their claims. Three genealogy reports \u2014 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 \u2014 challenge Prof. Julie Nagam\u2019s claims that she is M\u00e9tis. Nagam, an art professor in the U of W\u2019s history department whose online biography states she is \u201cM\u00e9tis\/German\/Syrian,\u201d has not responded to requests for comment. \u201cEverything is called into question with this in terms of academic integrity,\u201d Audra Simpson,... <\/p>\n