She said she was Cree because her father, William Turpel, was Cree. CBC asked Turpel-Lafond how her dad could be Cree when her grandparents, the people who raised her father, were of European and American ancestry. "It's pretty unequivocal that Eleanor was the mother of William Turpel, at least from the records I've seen," Humphries said. Turpel-Lafond also told CBC that a Cree woman had adopted her dad from her grandparents, seemingly the opposite of what she is now claiming. "The midwife, Mary Clarke, adopted my dad," Turpel-Lafond wrote in an email to CBC.

Source: CBC News October 14, 2022 23:41 UTC