We, students from the 2018–2019 graduating class of the Master of Social Work program at X University, write to you today in both outrage and disgust at what we have come to learn regarding Associate Director Cyndy Baskin.
During the summer of 2021, we began to witness social media posts stating that Associate Director Baskin was in fact not Indigenous to Turtle Island. On May 15, 2021, an account by the name of @DawnlandTruth on Twitter made a tweet stating Associate Director Baskin’s only connection to being Indigenous to Turtle Island was through a Mi’kmaq woman born in the 1700’s. Then on October 3, 2021, a series of tweets were then made under this first tweet which illustrated the past 5 generations of Associate Director Baskin’s genealogy.