Category: Pretend Indian
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First Nations? Why it is a Big Deal
Indigenous Identity — A Necessary Reckoning the picture above is my dad and older brother Freddy Thomas King’s admission that he falsely claimed Cherokee identity forces a hard truth back into the light. And I will say it plainly: Indigenous identity is not an aesthetic. It is not a performance. It is not something you…
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Buffy is a Fraud She Duped us all Accept it
Misrepresenting one’s Indigenous identity is ethically wrong. The topic of this blog will give rise to a strong emotional reaction because we have been duped. We want to believe that Buffy Saint Marie is an Indigenous person, but we need to get some perspective. W5 started that process in their documentary on her Indigenous claim.…
From the Shores of the Ottawa River 