A good comment.   Boyden's novel have had a lot of influence in bringing the history and situation of indiginous peoples to wider public attention in Canada in a favourable way.    How ironic that he should be criticized for this.     There's an irony here.  In the old days Indian women who married a white man, and all their descendants, were cut off from the benefits of Indian Act status, which I don't doubt was an economic and cultural tragedy for many.    And now, people with some indiginous background who come to feel a connection with it and take pride in it are shunned by others who consider that only they can judge who is and isn't entitled.