A chilling effect? There always was a chilled reception to what indigenous people had to say. That's why "safe" pretend Indians were always preferred by White audiences. If you'd read what Indigenous critics of Joseph Boyden had said before the scandal, you'd have found many uncomfortable with Boyden's playing to the Whites. And, really, wasn't this whole business a lame attempt at rehabilitating Boyden? His new book is due this fall and it's going to ignite a firestorm if he can't be excused of his fraud. I've not read one Indigenous writer who has said Whites can't write about Indigenous people. What they have said is that you Whites can't pretend to be Indigenous and racist stereotypes are out.