From Global News.

A leading researcher on Indigenous identity fraud has been ordered to pay damages and legal fees in a defamation suit filed by a University of Regina academic.

Plaintiff Michelle Coupal says Darryl Leroux defamed her when publicly stating she used a false Indigenous identity to become an expert in reconciliation.

According to the decision, Coupal began identifying as Indigenous in 2010 based on a belief that she had an Algonquin ancestor from the early 1800s. She was initially accepted by the Algonquin nation.

As Melissa Ridgen reports, the judge found Coupal didn’t maliciously claim indigeneity — she believed it to be true.

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