In Dec. 2020, Michelle Latimer’s documentary Inconvenient Indian , a National Film Board of Canada adaptation of Thomas King’s book The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of the Native People in North America, was pulled from the Sundance Film Festival after the director came under scrutiny for falsely claiming Indigenous family roots in an Algonquin community.

Now King, the American-Canadian writer of the 2013 meditation on what it means to be “Indian” in North America, has had to apologize after revealing the inconvenient truth about his own Indigenous identity: He is not, as long claimed, part Cherokee.

In Dec. 2020, Michelle Latimer’s documentary Inconvenient Indian , a National Film Board of Canada adaptation of Thomas King’s book The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious

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