Looking white and being Indigenous, a complicated relationship with identity - Regan Burden
For some time, I was made to feel that I wasn’t indigenous enough, I felt guilt about claiming to be indigenous. My understanding of my own culture and identity was shaken and through talking about it at the Provincial Aboriginal Women’s conference and speaking with the indigenous elders that were there, I felt able to reclaim who I was and the most important part of my identity, my indigeneity. I wrote an article about my experience for CBC Newfoundland and Labrador that I have attached a link to below, and after the article was shared I heard from so many indigenous people who felt the same way and realized that this was something that many people experienced.