Canadian filmmaker Michelle Latimer says she made a mistake in naming the First Nations community of Kitigan Zibi as part of her ancestry without formally verifying it.
The Thunder Bay, Ont.-raised writer-director has issued a statement on Facebook to address what she says are recent questions raised about her ancestry.
The “Inconvenient Indian” documentary maker has claimed in the past to be of Algonquin, Metis, and French heritage, from the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg and Maniwaki area in Quebec.
She apologizes in the statement for naming Kitigan Zibi as her family ancestry, based on information from relatives, before having verified that claim by the community first.
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