Why is the success of reconciliation on Boyden's back? It's not. But somehow he's been embraced by White Canada to speak for First Nations. He's like a company union.

And Yakabuski knows this ain't about a "lynching". That's just a misappropriation of a violent image which only undermines Yakabuski's point.

This is about "authenticity". It's clear that Joseph Boyden has lied about his ancestry. There are journalists who have lied about the authenticity of their subject matter when what they were writing was fiction and not fact. (Think Janet Cooke, Jayson Blair, Stephen Glass, and Jonah Lehrer.)

Joseph Boyden can resolve this quickly by simply publishing his family tree. Who were his parents and grandparents and greatgrandparents? Where did they come from? What First Nation does he come from?

I can handle a Grey Owl. I know he wasn't Ojibwe, but he was, through the influence of his Mohawk wife Anahareo, a great conservationist and defender of animal rights. 

Who is Joseph Boyden?