Buffy Sainte-Marie fans I'm going to need all of you to collect your energy because a certain shitty failed journalist with a history of anti Blackness and bullying is going to start a harassment campaign towards her.
Buffy is 81 years old and has done so much in her life for Indigenous music and activism. I hate that she has to now deal with a jealous, insecure person like Keeler who has nothing better to do with her life besides attack and harass eldery Indigenous women and BIPOC folx.
The fact is that Keeler is not protecting Indigenous ppl with her work. She thinks Canadian natives steal jobs from American natives, when she should realize that borders are colonial & that we are all related. Indigenous identity is a complex subject as well.
Keeler is, whether she likes it or not, a tool of white supremacy. Her insistence on paperwork and blood quantum being the only way to verify Indigenous identity is proof of that. She is making it easier for white supremacists to control and vet our identity.
When she attacked Sacheen there was such a large wave of anti-Native racism on this app. Her "research" of Sacheen did nothing but make it easier for racists to now harass us for "verification". She used non-native newspapers & journalists to get her famous and publish her work.
The fact that she is barred from NAJA, the NATIVE AMERICAN JOURNALIST ASSOCIATION, and other tribal/native owned newspapers should be a warning sign but for some reason, natives trust her despite her not holding a journalist license nor being a trained genealogist.
Keeler knows how to appeal to people like her which is why her group of supporters/genealogists are white-passing natives who are more than eager to attack anyone they disapprove of, leading to anti-Blackness and further lateral violence. She takes advantage of that insecurity.
Keeler is also planning to publish a book about her "pReTeNdIaN" research which goes to show even if she was doing this for the greater good, she is above all, a grifter, who wants to profit from her harassment of others. She is not to be trusted nor supported.
drive.google.com/file/d/1_lCuYR… This is a timeline I have made that compiles Keeler's harassment over the past 10 years, with screenshots, as well as details about the people she works with.