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A First Nations leader in Alberta is questioning Premier Danielle Smith's claim of Indigenous heritage. Smith has said she has some Cherokee roots and years ago declared herself as a person of mixed race.

Chief Tony Alexis of Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation, west of Edmonton, said on Friday that a true Indigenous person would not go against treaty people.

"What we're realizing is that anybody wants to be a part of the Indigenous community if there's a benefit."A story this week by the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network looked into Smith's family tree and found no evidence of the premier being Indigenous. APTN worked with Canadian and Cherokee genealogists and examined U.S. census reports from the late 1800s in it's investigation.

Chief Tony Alexis from Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation speaks at Lac Ste. Anne in July. Alexis said Friday that a true Indigenous person would not go against treaty people.

 

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23 and me

Forget national park money, how about all the money that has been funneled from Alberta to Quebec (have not Ha). Should calculate what is owed back to Alberta & subract that from any further transfers of the 13 billion given every year to Quebec. No other province gets that!

Forget national park money, how about all the money that has been funneled from Alberta to Quebec (have not Ha). Should calculate what is owed back to Alberta & subract that from any further transfers of the 13 billion given every year to Quebec.

But Trudeau says he's black?

Does CBC ever cover any story from a position other than race and gender? Do you ever think you may be more trusted and valued.If you weren't so biased and fake.

DefundCBC

If a person can simply make a declaration and change their biological sex, why not race? It is not any different. This is true racism.

Here come the smears.

How dare you challenge her, a native woman on her own heritage. Would CBC ever say this about a liberal MP?

Hey … get a job.

This gave me douche chills. Why do people do this!? Like when Brave Heart came out and suddenly everyone was “related” to William Wallace.

This is the kind of bullshit that leftists are worried about! Instead of real challenges Canadians face, which the premier is working tirelessly to resolve

Why are my tax dollars paying for this s**t? CBC always reports the most biased left wing crap. Report on the liberal government corruption. We'd all like to hear from that. There's always awesome new content coming from Trudeau's cabinet. StopWastingMyTaxDollars

CBC 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👉🤡

This article cemented it for me. Danielle Smith is getting my vote 💯

Worried CBC, digging deep now, lmao. Poilievre gonna Fire all ya'll.

Disgusting racist attack paid for by the dopey taxslaves of kahnada defundthecbc

The only indigenous the fake Smith has in her is the day she rode in the back seat of a Jeep Cherokee.

...her disingenuous* heritage

When 100% of Canadian population claims to be indigenous who will be left to pay their benefits? 🤔

What's her 1st Nation name then ? ' No Needle in the Bum ' ?

Ya mixed up

How about we DefundCBC or at least exile them from AB forever lol

CBC and CTV reporting the Same thing? Sketchy AF. Considering all the lies they spewed the past few years. Seems like a smear campaign to me.

Race is a passion of yours, isn't it.

CBC is toxic.

Many people make this claim, obtain a fake look a like card, for the tax breaks. She is most likely Dirty.

Sure wish cbc would hold trideau to task, but they can’t, they are paid by the liberals to chastise anything not liberal. Been all over Danielle smith since day one. The people cam see that.

You guys dont even hide how bought-out biased you are.

The fist nations is just like the federal government and we Albertans need to protect ourselves from their tyranny and raping our province using the federal governments backing!!!!

First Nations leader needs something better to do and hopefully this new premier will end this two tier society

Only left wing people like elizabeth warren who look less native than premier smith are allowed to claim partial native heritage unchallenged by state sponsored news sites like the CBC.

She's on ' Loco weed ' .

I have Irish and Scottish my heritage, i think it is okay to say that. I dont necessarily call myself Scottish or Irish, but i recognize my roots. We used to say we were all Heinz 57 years ago. Why couldnt she have Indigineous roots.?

Omg she is claiming indigenous connect . Anyone can make that claim let’s see the prove of that!

CBC is still having its melt down. The hatefull Liberals character assassination of Smith continues. How about another fake Mannequin in a fake Alberta ICU CBC. Maybe that will work to shame Alberta again! Division is your Liberal game after all.

Danielle Smith is Cherokee the same way I’m Bob the tomato

Just like CBC to try to darken a good person’s history do your job investigate things don’t just take peoples word for things did you investigate did you look up for heritage or did you just talk to people that don’t know her

Some relative had a relationship. This story is so stupid. Bad media and bad mini socialist pigs for gas lighting their own people still in poverty. Our First Nations should be a lesson for all of us regarding socialist corruption. Of course their gig feels threatened.

Nice try CBC my god your are Liberal propaganda

APTN used a fake non certified geneologist kinda like Gail Morin. Kathy Griffin White is notoriously anti-Black.

The media cant help but hate anyone that doesn’t fit the left narrative.

Who cares who's got what?....unless of course you're protecting some kind of undeserving special privilege...then I suppose you'd want to keep it private club.

Why do we care about this kind of shit? Waste of time.

As long as CBC keeps flogging away at Smith, the more I want to vote for her. She's obviously doing it right to garner this much attention from CBC's LPC/NDP Presstitutes. DanielleSmith2023

Reported to Twitter for DISINFORMATION

while people die around the world, cbc continues supporting the murderers while slandering those who wont.

This is CBC news bought and paid for by the Liberals and NDP. Why is anyone listening to them?

It’s called being a liar.

It is what someone does that is important, their gifts they share to humanity. That's the focus we should have or need to have.

Meanwhile the CBC props up a PM that wore blackface multiple times. Funny isn't it?

So what. How about covering those Emergency Act hearings

So it starts

FYI, claiming the heritage of a people, means you identify with that group, share their culture, language, history etc. A DNA test isn't it.

CBC grasping at anything....your pathetic.

She's learning from Pocahontas Warren in the USA.

Looks like the cbc is getting desperate for click bait

Apparently Trudeau has Cubain heritage.

Laughs in metis

She’s our new dumpster fire. Sort health care, infrastructure, unemployment and maybe help with the shortage of medicines before you put us all farther in the hole with a whole new Police force. We’re happy with the RCMP, just need more of them👍

Holy witch hunt 🤣 she lives in MSN head rent free all day and all night.. y’all are obsessed 🤣😬

I think Danielle is confuse, her parents telling her she was born in a Cherokee, or made in a Jeep Cherokee?

What’s his or her name?

Really CBC? This is news?

ABDanielleSmith, UCPCaucus Danielle Smith must prove it but I suspect she is Full of Shit as she always is.

Pokahontas....

You know you’re above the target when the media is this against you

who cares

DNA test please

Breaking: She’s not. However she is the Ivermectin Queen of Canada

Who cares lol

First nations always critical of something. They are the worst complainers in the world.

She needs to jump through the same hoops that I did to achieve my status, which took 2 years and a lot of paperwork.

Must be a slow day for tabloid journalism

No true Scotsman argument.

Why is it always Cherokee? (Cher, Johnny Depp Willi Nelson). Their territory is in the Southern US. Why is it never Cree or Ojibway? The second most popular Nation with pretendians is Navaho.

My question is why do we even play that card?, who cares . Don’t get me started on Indigenous leaders, their heritage or anything else

And the mass exodus of health care care worker and people who give a Fook about themselves and others leave the province.

She's half- human....maybe.

Anyone who has a relative that’s been in North America since its discovery could have native blood in them.

If we are looking for descriptors let's just run with pathological liar.

You sound desperate

I don't care, I will keep supporting her as long as she can do better than this stooge:

Imagine a state broadcaster that didn’t constantly insert divisive race war into everything. It is so disgusting.

Classic UCP's Alberta. We don't discover truth here, we manufacture it.

Why are you not reporting on this ?

I wonder if she has a Status card?

Leaders of Treaties 6, 7, and 8 oppose Smith's plan to introduce an Alberta Sovereignty Act, allowing her opt out of federal measures deemed harmful to provincial interests. Indigenous leaders are on the side of ‘Disallowance’, created by Britain to keep the colonies in check?

2 Timothy 2:23 “But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.” King James Version (KJV)

Why did the CBC place this at the end of their faux journalism / attack article on Alberta's Premier Smith.

Okay so she should do a 23 and me test to prove out the oral history told to her. Unlike SenWarren she did not use this to advance her career.

So, they don’t want her either?

Viewing everything through a lens of race and gender is toxic. do better or I'll vote for PierrePoilievre and end your tax dollar funding.

Can't she identify as indigenous?

She is not indiginous because she has a different view point ? This group are a bunch of whiners and should be not given the time of day.

Does she have a status card?

Why can't she just be what she wants to be ?

A biased and woke taxpayer-funded CBC is unquestionably doing everything it possibly can in order to unjustifiably discredit every single Conservative on the continent. ✔️

The tide turns in Alberta CBC. All you losers are gonna be out of a job soon.

The nut of high River is so many different things . Let’s just stick with nut !!!

Remember when a prominent democrat did this and you didn’t bother to “fact check” it, or run a retraction after it was debunked with extreme prejudice? It almost seems as tho is biased and has no journalistic integrity whatsoever. GroundhogDay

The CBC: using race as a weapon for years.

Let’s go witch-hunting. The heresy of thinking differently than the liberals.

When Elizabeth Warren did the same thing, it was racist to question it. I guess CBC are a bunch of races

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