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The Fifth Estate I honestly don't know what to make of this.
Agree.I don't know. I wasn't impressed by their evidence and conclusions, especially considering how Native children were adopted out and records were changed. It was appalling that they pulled birth certificates for a documentary. A lot of Native adults have no idea who their ancestors were for this very reason. Canada and the US both have horrible histories during this time period that they really would prefer not be made public. DNA would be the only compelling data and she's not likely to do that at this point in her life.
The changing story is not uncommon for adopted Indigenous children who don't know what their tribal affiliations were. And, I'm not convinced by anything associated with the birth certificate because they were totally faked for a lot of adopted Indigenous children. Neither of those pieces of the so-called evidence are at all meaningful or indicative of anything. Why should she offer her DNA? Her Native relatives (and if you are adopted into a Native tribe, they consider you a relative) are satisfied.The evidence is pretty overwhelming. The birth certificate? Her story changed so many times. I don’t see her representatives offering a DNA sample either. It definitely won’t happen.
Agree.
It’s quite common especially in the USA for adoptees to be given new birth certificates with the adoptive parents listed as the parents.
It was also common of the time to deny Indigenous adoptees were Indigenous because of the stigma of both adoption and racism.
As well, over the counter DNA tests are very poor at identifying Indigenous roots.
All that to say that she could be faking it but we will probably never know the truth one way or the other.
It’s too complicated a situation to know without intensive investigation.
Not if she didn't have a birth certificate at birth. Then the one filed by her parents would have been in sequence with all the others filed at that time. This is especially true if she was adopted as a newborn directly from a reservation or Catholic school. They wouldn't document an unwed mother at one of those schools and would have taken the infant away immediately.Except that in this case, her birth certificate is in sequence with other babies born at that time. Had it been retroactive, they would not have changed the numbering on every other birth certificate after hers.