Vampire the Buffy Slayer

 

An officially “indigenous” commentator is excoriating the CBC for breaking the news that Buffy Sainte-Marie is not indigenous. This, he or she (they claim to be “two-spirit”) argues, violates the obligation of all non-Indians towards reconciliation, because it traumatizes aboriginal people. 

It is not entirely clear what the CBC should have done instead; the author seems to say that aboriginals should have been given more time to digest the news. 

How do you report the news more slowly? Note the meaning of the word “news.” 

Leaving aside the implied assumption that Indians are helpless forest creatures unable to look after themselves or deal with the real world, necessarily, what both spirits really meant is that the CBC should have kept it secret. In other words, suppress rather than report the news.

This seems an unreasonable deman.

I think the real reason some indigenous people are upset is that the Buffy Sainte-Marie story, following so closely after the revelation that there were no mass graves at residential schools, is getting dangerously close to exposing the whole “First Nations” and “reconciliation” industry as a fraud.