Top Govt. Indigenous Peoples Health Expert Outed as Fake Indian

A woman who has been hailed as a Native American and “indigenous people health expert” has been outed as a fake Indian ala Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Carrie Bourassa, who had taken on the name “Morning Star Bear,” has for a decade claimed to be a member of the Métis tribe in Canada. and she has parlayed that supposed Native heritage into high paying university positions and government offices.

Now she has been outed as a liar and fake Indian.

Bourassa was a member of the University of Saskatchewan and served as scientific director at the Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health and Institute of Aboriginal Peoples’ Health. She also owns Infinity Consulting, which is described as an “Indigenous strategic planning; Indigenous health consulting and research, education and development.” Through the latter she was awarded rich government contracts.

Recently, during a TEDx Talk at the university, Bourassa tearfully told the audience, “My name is Morning Star Bear. I’m Bear Clan. I’m Anishinaabe Métis from Treaty Four Territory.”

To sell herself, Bourassa has constantly paraded around in an Indian-styled shawl, wearing eagle feather earrings, and carried an eagle feather.

Not everyone at the university was fooled by this conwoman, though. Winona Wheeler, associate professor of Indigenous studies at the University of Saskatchewan, began researching Bourassa’s family lineage and found that the woman’s ancestry is Russian, Polish, and Czechoslovakian.

Once the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation finally outed Bourassa, she lost her lucrative and fake government jobs and now the university has also dumped her.

Since her fall from grace, Bourassa is now claiming that she never said she was directly descended from Native American tribes, but only that she has been “adopted” by several tribes by friends of her now dead grandfather Clifford Laroque.

“Even though Clifford passed, those bonds are even deeper than death because the family has taken me as if I was their blood family,” she said in a statement. “In turn, I serve the Métis community to the best of my ability.”

Just another leftist appropriating the heritage of the Native peoples for personal profit.

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