5/17/2023 0 Comments Trickster cast![]() Once January came around, and news of the show’s cancellation started to flood social media, I was absolutely heartbroken. Not only because it sent me on a downward spiral of feeling like I was an imposter for being mixed, displaced, and de-tribialized, but also because the future of one of my favourite shows hung by a thread. Like many fans of the show, I understand that Robinson’s trust was deeply violated-as was the trust of many Indigenous communities involved in the production, and Indigenous peoples to Turtle Island overall.Īs someone who is mixed Indigenous (to so-called Mexico), hearing the news of Michelle Latimer shook me up quite a bit. Latimer, who claimed to be mixed French, Métis, and Algonquin with ties to the community of Kitigan Zibi, had her relationship to Kitigan Zibi denied by the community and was revealed to have based her Indigenous identity on unfounded claims. After its release, the television series was quickly renewed for a second season and picked up for streaming and distribution outside of so-called Canada.īut celebrations were short-lived when the Indigenous identity of director, co-creator and co-executive producer Michelle Latimer was questioned. The show was hailed as groundbreaking for its raw, authentic, contemporary Indigenous storytelling with a “supernatural” twist. Why the premature end of the show Trickster shouldn’t have happenedīased on a book series by Haisla and Heiltsuk author Eden Robinson, CBC’s Trickster premiered to raving reviews in October 2020.
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