Once again settlers and especially white people have no place in this discussion.  The only opinions that matter are from the Original People of Turtle Island.  Joseph Boyden failed to answer these questions while he was hedging his bets with a whitewashed apology.

What is your Nation?
What is your community? (He tried but he was wrong and showed he had not done any homework )
What is your clan?
Who is your family?
Are we related through these answers?

Every time I meet other Indigenous people for the first time, including members of my own community, I am asked these questions.  It is normal.  It is how we understand people's place in an Indigenous context.

Because he cannot answer these questions or has tried and used a number of pseudo-identities, he is a fraud.  A predatory fraud lifting the stories from our people and our communities.  That is it.

Meet Joseph Boyden the snowball.  White on the inside and white on the outside.