Vancouver Island University is one of 11 Canadian universities that have granted honorary doctorates to Turpel-Lafond.
"Turpel-Lafond informed VIU of her decision to voluntarily return the honour after receiving correspondence from the university that it would be moving forward with a process regarding her honorary doctorate," the Tuesday afternoon statement said.Last year, all of them announced they were reviewing the honours after
raised doubts about Turpel-Lafond's claims to Indigenous ancestry. For decades she had said she was a treaty Indian of Cree ancestry, but documents uncovered by CBC indicate she is of entirely European descent.After the story was published, a group called the Indigenous Women's Collective called on the 11 universities to revoke the honorary doctorates and they all indicated they would consider the request.
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