{"id":4375,"date":"2023-09-29T09:50:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T13:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/?p=4375"},"modified":"2026-03-09T12:39:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:39:48","slug":"being-cree-is-both-personal-and-political-for-me-deborah-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/2023\/being-cree-is-both-personal-and-political-for-me-deborah-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Cree is both personal and political for me: Deborah Young"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Being Cree is both personal and political for me: Deborah Young\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"339\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/224\/Deborah-Young-240x339.jpg\" alt=\"picture of Deborah Young\" class=\"wp-image-3420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/224\/Deborah-Young-240x339.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/224\/Deborah-Young-160x226.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/224\/Deborah-Young-400x566.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/224\/Deborah-Young-360x509.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/224\/Deborah-Young.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"c-article-meta__bylines\">In this introspective piece, <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/people\/deborah-young\/\">Deborah Young (Lecturer at Carleton&#8217;s School of Social Work)<\/a> delves into the deep-seated complexities of Indigenous identity, particularly from a Cree perspective. They share personal family stories and experiences, contrasting genuine connections to heritage and culture with the problematic phenomenon of &#8216;Pretendians&#8217;\u2014individuals who falsely claim Indigenous heritage without any authentic ties to the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full article in the Globe and Mail by following the link <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/life\/first-person\/article-being-cree-is-both-personal-and-politcal-for-me\/\">here<\/a> or through the Carleton Library <a href=\"https:\/\/proxy.library.carleton.ca\/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fnewspapers%2Fwhat-makes-me-cree-is-my-family-connections%2Fdocview%2F2869434189%2Fse-2%3Faccountid%3D9894\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this introspective piece, Deborah Young (Lecturer at Carleton&#8217;s School of Social Work) delves into the deep-seated complexities of Indigenous identity, particularly from a Cree perspective. They share personal family stories and experiences, contrasting genuine connections to heritage and culture with the problematic phenomenon of &#8216;Pretendians&#8217;\u2014individuals who falsely claim Indigenous heritage without any authentic ties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7319,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions\/7319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}