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Word to the wise- we have #pretendians all around us. the gill sisters were right out in the open. mainstream media hailed them as #inuit do gooders saving the world. to all white journalists- you must learn to do better. all of you.
to the ones who interviewed them for their "good work" you really need to do follow up stories telling the truth. investigate them- the money they stole. everything. i thought those stories were coming.
but I know what's happening in the mainstream media- you all fear lawsuits. when did lawsuits trump journalistic integrity?
Why people need to be concerned about nadya and amira gill- they had Inuit beneficiary cards. that allowed them access to Indigenous funding for education & to have their biz listed as verified Indigenous.
#kanatatrade #pretendians
#kanatatrade #pretendians
we put alot of pressure on them btw 😂. nunavut phones were ringing off the wall this week.
I report violations of the #IndianArtsAndCraftsAct on #Etsy and #ebay. Thing is, some of the worst offenders belong to #FakeTribes that have managed to swing State recognition. The retailers, & the ⚪️s who buy from the #pretendian sellers, either don't understand, or don't care.
So when they display their "enrollment" info... look up the "tribe" they claim. If they even name it. Some just say "Cherokee" or worse, "Cherokee descent". Ask for the specific tribe and look it up. Some state-recognized are real, but many are not. #IndianArtsAndCraftsAct #Fraud
It's no coincidence that ⚪️ people give tons of money to other ⚪️people who are playing Indian and selling fake Native bling, regalia, even fake medicines. These #pretendians make way more money at this than real #Natives. Just read their reviews & see who writes them. #Racism
why do I care so much about #pretendians ? cause i have had a rough life. i was stolen from my family & people at birth. i always looked Indigenous. but i never met a Native person raised in our culture until i was an adult. i was raised with only whites. i hated it.
i experienced so much white supremacy &also violence. it was rough growing up in rural white canada being me in the 70s. when i found my family i realized they too were victims of white supremacy. my mother was in residential school. she fled canada cause they kept taking us.
i still don't really have much family. many of my biological family are americans. we are@nothing alike. so white supremacy destroyed my family. i cant speak my language. i never had kids. i didn't want to pass on the trauma.
Today I sit down with Jacqueline Keeler (@jfkeeler) to discuss the dark secret of activist Sacheen Littlefeather and the epidemic of #pretendians.
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#SacheenLittlefeather #NativeAmerican #Oscars #FilmTwitter
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#SacheenLittlefeather #NativeAmerican #Oscars #FilmTwitter
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The firestorm around the #SacheenLittlefeather allegations has had me glued to Twitter for the last few days with a sense of creeping dread. I finally saw the tweet I knew was coming… one directed at me and people like me, who have been displaced, adopted out or disconnected (1)
There are people who believe that people like me, who are reconnecting to community and culture, should sit down and shut up, that we should not show leadership, that we don’t have the lived experience of indigeneity. This is false. We are Indigenous and we are alive (2)
Displacement and interference in our connection to culture IS an Indigenous experience. The last residential school closed in Canada in 1996. What happens to us in our lives and what takes us back to culture are important and should be talked about. We are survivors and our (3)
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"@nytimes published the Indigenous Rachel Dolezal. Trust me, she was my stepmother," says prominent Indigenous businesswoman, @BossKwe, COO of @8thgen.
@nytimes published Claudia Lawrence, alleged #pretendian, as 1st take on Deb Haaland in Cabinet.
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"@nytimes published the Indigenous Rachel Dolezal. Trust me, she was my stepmother," says prominent Indigenous businesswoman, @BossKwe, COO of @8thgen.
@nytimes published Claudia Lawrence, alleged #pretendian, as 1st take on Deb Haaland in Cabinet.
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Serene Lawrence is acclaimed COO of leading Native American art company @8thgen. Her career is dedicated to supporting authentic Native voices.
She alleges her former step-mother, white lady Claudia Caruthers, has stolen her father Dr. Blake Lawrence's tribal identity. (2 of 15)
She alleges her former step-mother, white lady Claudia Caruthers, has stolen her father Dr. Blake Lawrence's tribal identity. (2 of 15)
@nytimes picks Claudia "Lawrence" to speak for Indian Country. It's awful: "some may brand her as a 'Hangs-Around-the-Fort Indian' ... One of my friends wrote, 'Our auntie has done it!'"
All of Claudia's aunties appear to be white ladies.
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All of Claudia's aunties appear to be white ladies.
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Seriously? As critical race theorist Cheryl Harris showed way back in '93 , the white power structure seizes the RIGHT TO DEFINE ALL RACIAL CATEGORIES. This is what #pretendians are doing, defining the Native w/o regard for Indigenous definitions.
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& non-whites shore up white supremacy when they insist on definitions of Indigeneity forged in white supremacy. After stealing land & resources, white people & their institutions stole Indigenous children, bones, & blood. "Identity" theft is part of long line of appropriation.
if you defend her right to ID individually as Cherokee & Native (in part via DNA), you defend white supremacist rights to partition us all into (hierarchical) races, which guards access to the privileges of whiteness, Indigenous land & life that the (white) nation state claims.
I speak to a lot of historians/researchers as a journalist & know their work is necessary for our fight. Native scholars and tribal historians document our claims to the land & preserve our continued political existence. A racialized dismissal of their work is pretty weak. 1/4
However, proving who you are is necessary — or at least, representing yourself accurately. Advocacy based in truth is our most potent weapon. I don’t present myself as anything other than what I am. You can do the work w/out false claims to tribal identity. Many do. 2/4
Many folks who have a parent who is enrolled, but cannot enroll themselves still respect the sovereignty of their tribe and fight for it. They don’t misrepresent or overstate who they are. Once again, it is not necessary to do the work. 3/4
