December 19, 2023

How preventing Indigenous identity fraud may violate human rights

As academic institutions are working to prevent Indigenous identity fraud, Dalhousie University in Halifax released a report last October. The report includes recommendations to verify Indigenous identity of faculty, students and staff. Concerned how the verification process may violate human rights and research ethics, two Mi’kmaw law professors from the university wrote a 75-page human rights and legal analysis of the report.

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