Basically, her and her company are Wannabe Experts.
Think Office of Federal Acknowledgment, but WITHOUT:
• An Office
• Trained Expertise
• Accountability
• Legal or Subject Matter Authority
• Transparency
• Tribal Consent
Oh, but unlike OFA they employ FELONS.
Being a FORMER FELON isn’t a bar to Federal Employment, *but* if you haven’t actually been reformed, good luck getting through the background check.
Fresh warrants, rape allegations, and live restraining orders mitigate against that, but Keeler’s apparently fine with those.
Relatedly, you can look, but you will never find “Pretendian” within Federal Indian Law or Policy.
The modern United States government, warts and all, endeavors to at least APPEAR fair, to provide basic professionalism and customer service, and doesn’t call people EPITHETS.
It’s fake authority, a nonsense body of “Pretendian Law and Policy” that subset promotes.
They unrepentantly misrepresent the federal regulatory and policy scheme.
They regularly contradict themselves.
“Pretendianism” is all “whatever and whoever they say it is.”
It’s wildly inconsistent.
The Feds entrench and support systemic racism in Indian Country, but they don’t (typically) engage in petty, individually targeted harassment as much as they enable, empower, and reward it.
Feds have Policy, Karendians only have violence.
The Wannabe Experts, for all their talk of Sovereignty promote a racialized Indigeneity and Indian Country, else they wouldn’t go after enrolled people or audit Tribal Rolls for “fakes” without Tribal Governmental Consent.
They regularly and fundamentally conflate “Indian Status” under Federal Indian Law and Policy with settler-colonizer racial constructs.
For all their advocacy for a wider IACA, they oppose its federal “acknowledgment” of state recognition.
They would and do harass people who are Native American “by race” as a matter of federal policy and law (regulation being a source of law) by engaging in enrollment vigilantism and federal recognition essentialism.
Look, if people don’t want Indigenous Sovereignty and Native Nationhood conflated with Race, then they should get out of the business of Race.
The Feds should too. (CDIB’s? Really?)
“Indian Blood” isn’t pure or even clean politics and it’s factually absurd to claim it is.
The Wannabe Experts ought to *directly* serve the Tribes of their almighty enrollment and get out of everyone else’s.
Indian Country doesn’t have time for their Fake Authority, their Fake Caring, and their Fake Expertise.
They’re “BIA, but more cruel and stupid.”
Imagine weaponizing your “expertise” in the Tribal Law of a Tribe you have NO CONNECTION TO, based on snippets of it posted on the internet.
I’ve had enough of whole-ass outsiders rolling through with that ignorant swagger.
Wannabe Experts invite and encourage this—no consent.
We don’t get to CHEAT on #MMIW and violence in Indian Country by attacking and invalidating the Indigeneity of victims, the vulnerable, and their FAMILIES in Indian Country:
The OP QRT’d partially illustrates how a Public Indian will weaponize demagoguery and misogyny for personal clout and profit, teaming-up with men who have MMIW Liability and VICTIMS against victims, the vulnerable, and perceived competitors in Indian Country.
And when it’s time for accountability, they exploit MMIW and victimhood as a shield, their fingers and mouths still quivering from that same violence they themselves initiated and inflicted.
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