Full interview: Joseph Boyden on his heritagePosted in Articles, Audio, Autobiography, Biography, Canada, Interviews, Media Archive, Native Americans/First Nation, Passing on 2017-01-15 21:41Z by Steven |
Full interview: Joseph Boyden on his heritage
CBC Radio
2017-01-11
 Author Joseph Boyden addresses the recent controversy surrounding his Indigenous ancestral claims. (Penguin) |
“A small part of me is Indigenous, but it’s a big part of who I am.”
Is Joseph Boyden really Indigenous?
It’s a question a lot of people have been asking, and one the author himself addressed in an exclusive interview Wednesday with CBC Radio’s Candy Palmater.
“Absolutely,” Boyden said. “I’m a white kid from Willowdale (Ontario) with native roots — a small part of me is Indigenous, but it’s a big part of who I am.”
It was Boyden’s first interview since the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) released an investigation last month that called into question his Indigenous heritage and sparked a major controversy. The Giller Prize-winning author of Through Black Spruce is known for writing about Indigenous culture and communities in his novels, which also include Three Day Road and The Orenda. Boyden also has become a familiar voice when it comes to speaking on Indigenous issues in Canada…
Read the entire article here. Listen to the interview (00:32:32) here.