OTTAWA — The Federal Court has weighed in on the increasingly controversial issue of so-called Indigenous identity theft that has caused a rift in Labrador — or, at least, that’s how the group at the centre of its work is taking it.

The NunatuKavut Community Council, formerly the Labrador Metis Nation, represents some 6,000 self-identifying Inuit in south and central Labrador. They aren’t recognized as Inuit by any other federally-recognized, rights-holding Inuit collective.