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May 3, 2022 14 tweets 3 min read Read on X
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. Image
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. Image
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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Jun 10
On last week’s Canadaland ‘Pretendians’ podcast I came forward about the harassment of my family by Pretendian Hunters rebranding Jim Crow for the Digital Age.

I’ve since received heartbreaking testimony from Native Woman SA Survivors they’ve targeted.

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“It’s disgusting to claim that the Pretendian list is anything like Me Too when Keeler + some of the men in her orbit have dedicated themselves to stalking and harassing professional Native women, including survivors.

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[#MeToo, #MMIW, @InsideEdition, @Portland_State]

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“The ‘Pretendian hunters’ have spent years attempting to normalize this particular brand of violence against women.

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Oct 27, 2023
Killers of the Flower Moon introduced mainstream audiences to modern systemic murder and (ongoing) theft against the Osage, Osage Women. #MMIW.

Now “Pretendian Panic” changes the subject and ignores modern theft of Native Children.

“Can you find the wolves in this picture?”
Why would colonizers want to attack Buffy?

Because doing so has the major benefit of muddying the waters and absolving them of their crimes against Native Children, Families, and Nations.

Especially if it’s by one child who grew up to be a hero to First Nations, Indian Country.
They did this to Sacheen last year, if you recall.

Spent the critical month leading up to ICWA Oral Argument before SCOTUS degrading her unto her funeral.

Again, the issue they obscured from the mainstream was the theft of Native Children from their Families, Nations, and LIVES
Read 8 tweets
Aug 5, 2022
It’s safer for a “White Native” to claim their Blackness than for a Black Native to exist.

Seeing that at work has had me reeling in recent months.

Especially from people who disenroll Black Natives, but when they get their turn, they’re suddenly one also.

There are receipts.
That isn’t to say we’re even talking about acts compliant with Tribal Law, so much as people doing what they do because they can get away with it and have their asses covered after the fact.
TL;DR

Indian Country has its own “Shaun King’s” in the straight Shaun King sense.
Read 6 tweets
Aug 5, 2022
“East Coast Tribes were lighter-skinned!”

Ok, let’s make a deal:

I won’t obscure my Blackness to appease anyone’s postcolonial insecurities if you won’t obscure your whiteness with FUCKING VIKINGS for the same transparent reasons.

We all know THAT exercise isn’t about facts.
Those Viking Princesses are something else.
It’s the rhetorical version of the spray-on tan and dyed black hair.

God help you if the force of Tribal Law is behind that insecurity, which, if we’re being honest, it totally is.
Read 8 tweets
Aug 4, 2022
Amazing what is found when one isn’t looking.

Signed and sworn by a Rez Elder in the mid-90’s, back when we were enrolled.

“Who claims you,” indeed.

Bittersweet in the extreme.

Will have to ask them about that Rez Lynching Story after I die; helluva thing to drop on people. Image
Maryland expected this and related information, back when I was a teenager.

(The county had me as “White,” somehow, but that’s another matter.)

And NO, I’m not giving that Elder’s signature and PII/data: People abuse enough of that already.
What a fucking country this is.

Especially the fucking South.
Read 5 tweets
Aug 4, 2022
Found a harsh reminder from Michigan that Jim Crow did not have a monopoly on Eugenics Movement horrors.
Again, Eugenics was not divorced from race, it violently reinforced prejudices under the guise of “Race Science.”
There is a terrible clarity that comes with the openness to f Eugenicists, however.

In the heyday of Eugenics, it’s supporters proudly self-identified and provided everything you needed to know that informed their views.
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