Repercussions: will there be consequences for a century of indigenous identity fraud? Other voices on the pretendian problem.

This one is only five minutes long, but includes an interesting hypothesis about spiritual bankruptcy, emphasizing the extent to which fraud of this kind is motivated by intangible factors, not merely career opportunities:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozv5bd7gC0

This video, above, was supposed to deal with the fate of Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, and the participants apparently cannot deal with that question directly, but instead veer off into declarations about abstractions and the narration of generalities.

Here's a longer discussion, without a focus on any one case study (although Turpel comes up as an example).

Note the use of the word "tentacles" within the first few minutes of this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6LyHSXxt8Q

Nobody is dealing with the unholy pentacle of (1) money, (2) fame, (3) power, (4) respect and (5) sex. I've said many times that merely identifying as a medical student changes the experience of your university years: just telling people that you will be a medical doctor in future changes the way you're perceived, even if you're penniless and powerless while you're still in school. The effects of pretendianism are much more profound.

To what extent people like Turpel-Lafond should be analyzed as cold blooded manipulators and to what extent they were hot blooded but genuinely insane remains unasked and unanswered.

❦ Addendum ❦

I would just note: she has not stopped lying.  After paying a $10,000 fine and admitting to "a series of false public claims about her accomplishments and history" Turpel-Lafond has proceed to tell new lies that are impossible to reconcile with already-public evidence.  Not all of the lies are… genetic in character: "For example, she claimed to have authored a book that was never published, claimed to have received an honorary degree that she never received and claimed to have a degree that she hadn't earned."  The source here only dealt with lies she's told "since 2018" —which is really too little too late.  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/experts-question-meaning-turpel-lafond-reported-dna-analysis-1.7276028

It is interesting that nobody asks what her husband has ever had to say about this matter: one way or another, he knew.