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So go ahead and enjoy this 2018 investigation: https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/dna-ancestry-test

The next day Kim TallBear commented:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/dna-testing-indigenous-ancestry-1.4705797

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Culture is more than genetic markers
TallBear said the case is egregious, but suggested all DNA companies are taking advantage of a growing curiosity in ancestry research — while neglecting complex questions around culture, race and government status.

DNA tests are not valid for determining Indigenous affiliation, First Nations or tribal identity, said TallBear. The tests don't satisfy the requirements for Canadian status or band membership.
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Etcetera / Re: Buffy Sainte-Marie denies she misled public about Indigenous ancestry
« Last post by Sparks on December 15, 2023, 06:29:56 am »
In her Wikipedia article these developments are referred to in the Personal life and Indigenous identity paragraphs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_Sainte-Marie

The last of these two paragraphs has been expanded and is now named False claim of Indigenous identity.
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This video came out recently.

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https://youtu.be/daDDuTW7BF0?si=sQ9VNXnq-VhEclpP
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Research Needed / Re: Jason Michaud, CEO of Stardust
« Last post by Sparks on December 08, 2023, 07:05:57 pm »
Most important for the kind of investigations NAFPS members carry out:
http://jasonmichaudspace.com
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Space Fraud Watch : Jason Michaud

The list presently contains 13 names. One example:
http://jasonmichaudspace.com/metis-first-nation-awaiting-confirmation/
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Metis First Nation

Another example:
http://jasonmichaudspace.com/michipicoten-first-nation-awaiting-confirmation/
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Michipicoten First Nation
Jason Michaud has claimed to be part indigenous, while currently claiming Metis. He has also claimed to be a part of the Michipicoten First Nation. Requests for his identity have been met with resistance

A formal request has been made to Michipicoten First Nation to confirm or deny his membership request. His close friends have stated that he is not indigenous. (His step father was, but he was not.)

Evidence : Emails, screenshots, multiple eye witnesses (AW, MSM)

Confirmed that he has admitted to this however a formal request has been made to Michipicoten First Nation to confirm or deny his membership request. Individual members of Michipicoten First Nation have stated he is not on the membership roster.
August 14, 2023
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Research Needed / Re: Jason Michaud, CEO of Stardust
« Last post by Sparks on December 08, 2023, 03:10:14 am »
As CEO of Stardust, Jason organizes the Stardust Festival in Timmins, ON, Canada.

The Websites:  https://www.stardustinc.ca   —   https://anangokaa.space
 
From his LinkedIn biography:
Kind of … awesome? — Anyway, it's here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonlmichaud/

He's also on 'X' (Twitter): https://twitter.com/JasonLMichaud
And on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jasonlmichaud92
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jasonlmichaud
And here: https://www.behance.net/jasonmichaud
And: https://spaceq.ca/in-conversation-jason-michaud-stardust-technologies/
Also: https://play.acast.com/s/the-space-economy/jason-michaud-stardust-technologies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpN3dvIsDBo
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Interview with Mr. Jason Michaud -- CEO of Stardust Technologies & Tech Galaxy -- FUTURE OF SPACE!!!

Most important for the kind of investigations NAFPS members carry out:
http://jasonmichaudspace.com
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Space Fraud Watch : Jason Michaud

There have always been people in business and in the space industry who have misrepresented themselves. One such person is Jason Michaud of Cochrane, Ontario who has violated contracts, failed to pay employees/contractors, and most recently identity fraud by claiming to be indigenous and obtaining benefits specifically for the indigenous community.

This website will be a list of people with claims against Jason Michaud to let the victims be aware that they are not alone and to help facilitate eventual justice.

Anything unconfirmed will labeled as such. If someone is on here falsely, feel free to send a message to the tips email address. If you are listed here as unconfirmed it is because at least two separate individuals provided your name and some evidence to support what was listed but you didn’t respond when asked if you would speak to the investigator or provide more evidence. Two of you have instead chosen to threatened the 20 year old woman whose idea it was, who maintains the site, and is our “tips” person instead of being adults and asking for your information to be removed.

If you too have had issues with Jason Michaud and would like to be listed on here, please email: tips @ jasonmichaudspace.com with your complaints (bonus for sending evidence to make our lives easier) and we will investigate and put you on the list!

The list presently contains 13 names. One example:
http://jasonmichaudspace.com/metis-first-nation-awaiting-confirmation/
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Metis First Nation

Jason Michaud has claimed to be part indigenous, while currently claiming Metis. He has also claimed to be a part of the Michipicoten First Nation. Requests for his identity have been met with resistance.

His close friends have stated that he is not indigenous. (His step father was, but he was not.)

Evidence : Emails, screenshots, LinkedIn profile, multiple eye witnesses (AW, KS, MSM, RR)

Confirmed – Metis First Nation has refused to officially confirm or deny his membership citing privacy concerns which is impeding this investigation further however individual members of Metis First Nation with access to the files have stated he is not a member – Aug 21, 2023.
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Research Needed / Jason Michaud, CEO of Stardust
« Last post by niigankwe on December 07, 2023, 09:31:43 pm »
Hello,

As CEO of Stardust, Jason organizes the Stardust Festival in Timmins, ON, Canada. He claims to be "of French and Métis heritage." In Canada, Métis are considered an Indigenous group. The controversial part is that many Métis groups are organizations and not communities and certainly not governed by something like the Indian Act as Status Natives are in Canada. There is a growing controversy in Canada about many Eastern Métis groups who are trying to gain the same Treaty rights as Status Indian people without (a) belonging to a Native nation, and (b) their people ever signing a Treaty. Many of whom claim Indigenous ancestry through a single ancestor as much as 13 generations in the past. Much of this is part of Dr. Darryl Leroux's research (https://www.raceshifting.com/). At least Jason is a "descendent" of Metis ppl and not trying to claim to be one. But, is he?

According to the website anangokaa.space: "Experience the groundbreaking Anangokaa Festival 2024, the largest Indigenous STEM+ festival in Timmins, Ontario, from May 27th to June 1st, empowering regional outreach and fostering local economic growth." However, the vast majority of people that are acting as "Storytellers" for the Indigenous students that he brings are non-Native. https://anangokaa.space/storytellers

From his LinkedIn biography:
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Jason Michaud was raised in Dubreuilville, a lumber village. With a blend of French and Métis heritage he grew up amidst the rich cultures of both the French and Anishnawbe communities, on the traditional lands of Michipicoten First Nation.

Overcoming the challenges of growing up in an isolated community, Jason tenaciously pursued his passion for a career in STEM. Despite the obstacles faced, he became the first in his family to graduate from high school, a testament to his unwavering determination and resilience. Jason then went on to pursue his education in computer sciences at Collège Boréal.

In 2014, Jason founded Stardust with a vision to advance the space industry through technological innovation and scientific breakthroughs, ultimately making space more accessible to humanity.

Through Stardust, he has successfully established several international projects in collaboration with partners worldwide. Notable among these ventures is the renowned Anangokaa Festival, the largest space festival in Canadian history.

With over 80 parabolas of experience in zero-gravity, lunar, and Martian gravity flights, Jason Michaud has accumulated substantial expertise as a crew member. He has worked closely with esteemed institutions such as the Canadian Space Agency and the National Research Council of Canada in the development of the SERENITY project. Jason's aspirations extend to the establishment of a lunar city in the future.

The SERENITY project will allow space explorers to embrace their loved ones from space during the ARTEMIS missions. Jason's Anangokaa initiative aims to empower indigenous sovereignty in space, particularly for the people of Turtle Island, through the establishment of the first indigenous space agency. In 2026, the Robotic Arm One For All, which shall be developed in conjunction with ispace, will enable future generations to remotely experience the sensation of touching the moon's soil during its flight.

Additionally, Jason's latest endeavor, THEIA, is the world's first lunar analog habitat, designed to accommodate a crew of 20 or more individuals. THEIA will focus on studying crew dynamics, and well-being, and conducting comprehensive research on various aspects of human civilization, with the ultimate goal of paving the way for humanity as a multi-planetary species.
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Etcetera / Re: Bob Dylan (Robert Dylan) AKA Robert Allen Zimmerman
« Last post by Sparks on December 06, 2023, 12:27:14 am »
I looked for Bob Dylan1s possible involvement with Native American themes, and found this:

https://journal.oraltradition.org/wp-content/uploads/files/articles/22i/Desveaux.pdf

Amerindian Roots of Bob Dylan’s Poetry
[By] Emmanuel Désveaux (Trans. from French by Valerie Burling)

[An article in the journal Oral Tradition, 22/1 (2007): 134-150]

A fascinating and interesting read, which I hope more people than me will enjoy.
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Etcetera / Bob Dylan (Robert Dylan) AKA Robert Allen Zimmerman
« Last post by Sparks on December 05, 2023, 07:48:18 pm »
Quoting excerpts from this article: https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/lifestyle/arts-and-entertainment/front-row-seat-bob-dylan-buffy-sainte-marie-and-reckoning-over-folk-revival

Front Row Seat: Bob Dylan, Buffy Sainte-Marie and reckoning over folk revival
CBC News has produced evidence that Buffy Sainte-Marie has been untruthful about her purported origins. There are echoes in the story of Bob Dylan, a fellow folkie born in Duluth the same year.
By Jay Gabler — November 23, 2023 at 6:00 AM

DULUTH — Music fans around the world are grappling with a recent report by CBC News, which uncovered a birth certificate indicating that folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie was biologically born to white parents in Massachusetts and not, as she has long claimed, adopted by that couple from birth parents of the Piapot First Nation in Saskatchewan.
The revelation comes amid a reckoning with the practice of Indigenous identity fraud, in which people falsely claim to have Native ancestry. While Sainte-Marie forged close ties with a Piapot family, the doubt over whether her journey to Saskatchewan literally constituted a homecoming has caused sorrow and anger among generations who have embraced Sainte-Marie as an icon of Indigenous music and culture.

Reading this news in Duluth, I couldn't help but think of Sainte-Marie's peer, Bob Dylan. I'm not the only one — in the CBC News article, Dylan's is the first name mentioned among fellow members of Sainte-Marie's 1960s musical circles.

Dylan and Sainte-Marie both rose to prominence during what became known as the "folk revival" in American music. Both were born in 1941, and both took stage names: Dylan was originally named Robert Zimmerman, while Sainte-Marie was born Beverly Jean Santamaria.
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Early in Dylan's career, he took considerable creative license in discussing his origins. Journalists eventually discerned that Dylan grew up in northern Minnesota, but when the artist first started getting press, he would answer questions about his origins obliquely and would often add wild untruths.

He'd describe living on the Great Plains and in the desert Southwest as a child, then traveling with a carnival in his teen years. Dylan acknowledged being born in Duluth, but cast a bit of doubt even between the Twin Ports. "Maybe it was Superior, Wisconsin, right across the line," he said to Shelton.

Dylan was casting himself in the mold of his itinerant Okie hero Woody Guthrie. Dylan's dissembling was in the spirit of a long history of artists obscuring their origins so as upend expectations surrounding their work. It also, though, spoke to the highly contested notion of authenticity during the folk revival.
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While Dylan has never publicly claimed Indigenous ancestry, it seems he was not entirely averse to wrapping ersatz Native identity into the web of stories he wove in his early years. The young Dylan told some of his New York friends that he was of Sioux descent, fellow musician Dave Van Ronk recalled.

"One night he spent something like an hour showing a bunch of us how to talk in Indian sign language, which I'm pretty sure he was making up as he went along, but he did it marvelously," wrote Van Ronk in his memoir. "And when we found out that a lot of his stories were bull---t, that didn't really lower his stock all that much."
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The reality of Dylan's own origins is that he was born to middle-class parents in Duluth and came of age in Hibbing. While Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and others have movingly sung of the plight of the largely white working-class Minnesota miners exploited by industrial titans, popular musicians have had much less to say about the Indigenous history of regions like the Iron Range.

"The land from which the mines were carved was coercively taken from the Ojibwe, largely for its mineral resources," wrote scholar Joseph Whitson in a 2019 article about the erasure of Indigenous history on the Iron Range. "The white ethnic immigrant workers' 'sylvan wilderness' was only created by the coercive, and often violent, removal of the Ojibwe to reservations."
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Frauds / Re: Gregorian Bivolaru AKA Magnus Aurolsson
« Last post by Sparks on December 04, 2023, 01:28:17 am »
Then there was Harbhajan Singh Puri, a Punjabi customs inspector … Calling himself Yogi Bhajan
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Perhaps the most infamous teacher of all is the Speedo-wearing, waxed-chested Bikram Choudhury, the inventor of so-called “hot yoga”.
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In 2017 Sogyal Rinpoche, the founder of Rigpa … was forced to resign in disgrace …
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Narcis Tarcau, the founder and leader of the Agama yoga centre on the island of Ko Pha Ngan in Thailand …

Each of the four gurus bolded above have their own topics here in the NAFPS Forum:

http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=4846.0 [Sat Nam Fest, Yogi Bhajan, Kundalini, 3HO Cult]

http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=4968.0 [Bikram Choudhury]

http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=5268.0 ["... Inside the dark world of Buddhist teacher Sogyal Rinpoche"]

http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=5259.0 [Narcis Tarcau AKA "Swami Vivekananda Saraswati"]
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Frauds / Re: Gregorian Bivolaru AKA Magnus Aurolsson
« Last post by Sparks on December 03, 2023, 11:58:17 pm »
Earlier mentions of Gregorian Bivolaru here in the NAFPS forum:

More about the Romanian connection:

Tarcau, who is from Romania, set up Agama in Koh Phangan after leaving Rishikesh in India when it is understood his visa was revoked . Tarcau had studied under Gregorian Bivolaru, another Romanian guru who was on a publicised mission to sleep with 1,000 virgins as the path to enlightenment. Bivolaru went on the run in 2004 after being sentenced for having sex with an underage girl, was arrested in Paris in 2016 and was later released. He remains on Europol’s most wanted list, accused of human trafficking.

Gregorian Bivolaru has been mentioned several times here in this forum, in two different topics:

Biven Momonta: "Ancient Russian Wisdom" (27 hits on Bivolaru):
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?action=printpage;topic=466.0

"Goddess" temples busted in prostitution sting - many arrests & charges (6 hits):
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?action=printpage;topic=3435.0
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