her list is NOT accurate she is as bad as anyone w false claim. One would argue a public Google doc suffices . As Verity said, the family is very well documented. Screenshots and links. If the editors had known that there were questions about her connection to the Native community, this essay would not have been published until those questions had been resolved.. Sacheen Littlefeather on stage at AMPAS Presents An Evening with Sacheen Littlefeather at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on Sept. 17, 2022, in Los Angeles, California. While Jon Levine, the reporter of the Post piece, emailed back to say he grabbed the picture in question from Keelers Instagram, and. Let us focus on unity and building bridges! Nadema Agard, a New York City visual artist who claims Lakota, Cherokee, and Powhatan ancestry, is named. It takes a person with enough knowledge of the gaps in the system to exploit them. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Pow Wows are one of the best ways to connect with your ancestral heritage and celebrate Native American culture. Embattled now by the Miamis who share the reserve land in OK. One thing less important than the main part here was that tribes might lose the power in law to distinguish themselves in kindness in continuing to bring kindred into the circle. While some may not be enrolled or citizens they are accepted in their communities and we recognize that these decisions should ultimately be made by the tribes . [The piece] tries to make black and white things that actually have nuance.. The State politicians and the groups sought out the Indian Arts and Crafts Act people to guide the groups recognition bill S.222 in just the right way, to pass the mustard, yet no Vermont politicians ever objectively validated these people as being descendants of the Abenakis. Sacheen's estranged sister (the source) - Jackie Keeler has had this "Pretendian List" circulating for a while with a lot of the people on it being harassed by clout chasing white people who want to be Native Adjacent. Jacqueline Keeler is compiling a long list of Pretendians that attempt to speak on behalf of Native people, take up space intended for Native people, or worse, prizes, scholarships, and awards. Theres also a lot of personal data being collected for this list and made public. Yeah, Fake Race Fraud Claims to sell podcasts and books are also Race Fraud. 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If we soon turn up on Keelers list, dont be surprised. It has meant, more than anything, a feeling of utter powerlessness within the structures of strong mainstream institutions. Getting rid of every single pretendian isn't going to (I think) strengthen our sovereignty changing our rolls to include all our people does . Timothy B. Powell, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1999), Anthes, Bill. Keeler has a reputation for doing this kind of thing. Sometimes people exploit this by claiming, In an apparent response to these incidents, Navajo and Yankton Dakota writer, The Google doc can be viewed by requesting access with an email address. [42] Deloria also explores the white American dual fascination with "the vanishing Indian" and the idea that, by "Playing Indian", the white man can then be the true inheritor and preserver of authentic American identity and connection to the land, aka "Indianness". In 2015 Reed was forced out as director of the schools Native American Program over allegedly faking membership in the Eastern Delaware Nations. Why Are Land Acknowledgements Important? What compels someone to say this at their own sister's funeral? This is a contentious document that questions peoples identity by insinuating ethnic fraud is being carried out. [25][a], While Indigenous communities have always self-policed and spread word of frauds, mainstream media and arts communities were often unaware, or did not act upon this information, until more recent decades. You might be a pretendian if you've legally changed your name from "Weissvogel" to "White Eagle Soaring." You might be a pretendian if you burn to a crisp in ten minutes of strong moonlight. Tinsel Korey Since 2009, there have been numerous reports about Tinsel being another pretendian. [36], On September 13, 2021, the CBC News reported on their ongoing investigation into a "mysterious letter", dated 1845 (but never seen before 2011[37]) that is now believed to be a forgery. A pretendian (portmanteau of pretend and Indian) is a person who has falsely claimed Indigenous identity by claiming to be a citizen of a Native American or Indigenous Canadian tribal nation, or to be descended from Native ancestors. Indeed, some deceivers have argued that her list is in itself racist, or that it has racial undertones, because it includes people who identify as both Black and Native. To people like Bourassa, we are indeed a costume, except one you get to wear all year long and benefit from professionally because it checks that box that was created to even-out the field that cannot ever be evened out just by a box. Survivor of pretendian pandemic. It was a list that was to be researched by. Black Natives should never see this type of behavior from someone with such a large platform, whom theyd entrusted to advocate on their behalf. We suspect that might change soon. Individuals who have been accused of being a pretendian include: History of false claims to Indigenous identity, Post-1960s: Rise of pretendians in academia, arts and political positions. There is a lack of empathy because they will retaliate against native people who try to expose their fraud.. ), Keeler concluded, Especially since the vast majority on the Alleged Pretendians list are White Americans playing Indian for profit? Jacqueline Keeler. The list includes well-known imposters and claimants like Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Johnny Depp, but also less well-known figures in media and the arts. Despite wide circulation on social media, Keeler has yet to address the screenshot. Jacquelin "Stands With a List" Keeler Din (Navajo) writer Jacqueline Keeler's reputation has fallen considerably since she was fired from Indian Country Today for biased reporting and later her controversial research methods in building the "Alleged Pretendian List". Karendian Vowel. The term is a pejorative colloquialism, and if used without evidence could be considered defamatory.As a practice, being a pretendian is considered an extreme . Now, a piece in the San Francisco Chronicle argues that Littlefeather, who died earlier this month, was a fraud. Mr. Stevens claims repeatedly that his maternal grandmother was hiding her identity by merely and only using Lillilan/Pauline or Delia as her first name, to avoid the 1931 Eugenics sterilization law of Vermont. What the heck? Keeler replied on Twitter, referencing the Indigenous Wire piece. Written by author Jacqueline Keeler, whose running "Alleged Pretendians" list documents cases of Native American ethnic fraud, the article cites two of Littlefeather's sisters who say that their sibling lied about her heritage. They are also all monetizing their claims. Its worse to shut down someone trying to reconnect with their ancestral roots than to let a pretendian slip by. Indeed, some Odanak Abenaki Families descendants do in fact reside in Vermont. Death certificates list both parents with their birth places and mother's maiden name. Sometimes people exploit this by claiming Native ancestry. Adopt and donot adopt. It is up to people, like Jacqueline Keeler and Tywla Barnes and others, like Darryl Leroux, and myself to try and alert the public, as to the fraud committed by both State and Federal agency and politicians, who give platform-space-and benefit to these race shifters claiming an identity as Indians/Abenakis/Cherokees, etc. The Academy apologized to Littlefeather in a letter reported in April. What the heck? Keeler replied on Twitter, referencing, . , Keeler went a different routeone that we had been told in advance she might. I could very easily say Keeler has no connection to the Navajo Nation, not sure how she got enrolled, and publish her name on a list. The group in Swanton submitted their initial petition for federal recognition in 1982 (after having their internally-trained -by John Moody- but biased genealogists who claimed to be Abenakis, members of the group, do the research and an Addendum was added in 1986. [35] Keeler has stressed that the list does not include private citizens who are "merely wannabes", but only those public figures who are monetizing and profiting from their claims to tribal identity and who claim to speak for Native American tribes. She was 75. Under one name is a note attached, Unable to ascertain truth of claim due to adoption. Yet, the individual remains on the list as an alleged pretendian., Keeler also added former Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell to the list, despite his enrollment in the Northern Cheyenne nation with a note attached, No Cheyenne ancestry. Problem with this narrative of his, is that the objective evidence shows her as Delia throughout most of her life, in Burlington City Directories, Census Records, her childrens birth, marriage and death records, and even in the Burlington Free Press, including her place of residence! Were on the list that apparently matters. A controversial piece in the San Francisco Chronicle features interviews with the actress sisters, who say she wasnt part of a Native American tribe. This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. That is, she has a tendency to portray herself as the victim of some greater conspiracy. Littlefeather died on 2 October following a breast cancer diagnosis. His family came from Mexico. As with the Abenakis of Vermont and New Hampshire, the Penobscots, Maliseets, Mikmaqs, nor the Passamaquoddies, let alone the Federally Recognized tribal communities, in the past or present, have ever questioned or even really validated objectively, that these people in Vermont and New Hampshire actually descend from the Abenakis. A CBC investigation that cast doubt on the authenticity of a letter which has enabled more than 1,000 people to claim Indigenous ancestry is reinvigorating efforts to remove so-called. Their silence has not meant complicity. Keeler has a reputation for doing this kind of thing. Making their data available opens them up to possible harassment or worse. It can really feel like a damned if you do damned if you dont situation if you dont say youre Native are you a pretendiwhite? Among famous names like Johnny Depp and . (20 years to "get the records straight). In September 2003, Odanaks Chief, Gilles Obomsawin, with the Band Council retracted their recognition (politically) of anyone claiming to be Abenakis south of the US/Canadian border, with the exception of Odanaks own people who reside in the U.S.A. (which are documented descendants of Odanak Abenakis). Your place here is more secure than that. Yes, people lying about their ancestry to gain some personal advantage is wrong, It is not that the type of effort that Keeler is undertaking is bad. They indignantly assert that no one has the right to question her self-identity. jacqueline keeler is a known racist and xenophobe (just google "Opinion: The Real Problem With Jacqueline Keeler's 'Alleged Pretendian' List" there's an article that links an entire google doc of the racist shit she's done over the years and . What you are doing to Keeler is no different than the abuse you allege she is inflicting. Problem was, none of their narratives of connection to the Abenakis was objectively validated by any documentation whatsoever. Pretendians are a major problem yet Im disturbed that theres a list like this that feels arbitrary. At the same time, he said the piece has a gotcha ethos that could prove harmful. Rachel Dolezal, Iron Eyes Cody, Grey Owl, and even the Bruchacs are not who they appear to be. [3][8][9][10] It is sometimes also referred to as a form of fraud,[1] ethnic fraud or race shifting.[11][12]. Under one name is a note attached, Unable to ascertain truth of claim due to adoption. Yet, the individual remains on the list as an alleged pretendian.. While Indigenous communities have always self-policed and spread word of frauds, mainstream media and arts communities were often unaware, or did not act upon this information, until more recent decades. [5], In October 2022, actor and activist Sacheen Littlefeather died. Your email address will not be published. Federally recognized Pretendian list co-creator. To be clear: We were letting readers know what those terms mean in service of a greater discourse of this topic. Other tribal citizens, who had been raised in American Indian boarding schools under genocidal policies designed to erase their cultural identity, also revived tribal religious and cultural practices. [31], In January 2021, Navajo journalist Jacqueline Keeler began investigating the problem of settler self-indigenization in academia. [22][23][24] Attempts by non-Natives to racialize Indigenous identity by DNA tests have been seen by Indigenous people as insensitive at best, often racist, politically and financially motivated, and dangerous to the survival of Indigenous cultures. Nadema Agard, a New York City visual artist who claims Lakota, Cherokee and Powhatan ancestry, was listed. And how can you use a term that is misogynistic and equates verification of stated claims by people who monetize their claims to Native identity to threatening the lives of Black Americans? she further asked on Twitter. [36][35][44][45][46][47] In Settler Colonialism + Native Ghosts - "Community, Pretendians, & Heartbreak", Robinson posits that, Quite often this seems to be a cynical ploy towards some kind of anti-Indigenous political programme, as Darryl Leroux and others have demonstrated quite convincingly and handily regarding the explosion of groups in eastern Ontario, Qubec, the Maritimes and parts of New England (2019) where quite often the absolutely astronomical growth in new claimants of Indigeneity can be clearly traced back to white supremacist, anti-Native, political projects in opposition to Aboriginal and Treaty rights. They are fully fed , how can they be fed up enough to cut off communication? Keeler insists Agards heritage traces itself back to Barbados and showed genealogical records which she said backed up the assertion. Im investigating actual ethnic fraud which harms Native people. When individuals assert themselves as Native when they are not culturally Indigenous, and if they do not understand their tribal nation's history or participate in their tribal nation's society, who benefits? The above video has the audio enhanced and subtitled. to cover the Posts possible manipulation, letting readers know what those terms mean, she has allegedly tweeted the N-word and has allegedly supported doing blackface, has been caught doing this very thing in the past. Keeler said she was inspired to create the document this year in response to a New York Times op-ed by Claudia Lawrence a freelance journalist who has since been accused of being a Pretendian. The Vermont Eugenics Records NEVER once mentioned in the 40+ boxes of materials the word Abenaki for any of his or any other family (including my ancestors, the Wood(w)ards, nor their lateral line relatives, the Ways, Sweetsers, etc. All of this added up to a culture that was not inclined to disbelieve self-identification, and a wider societal impulse to claim Indigeneity.[19]. In popular culture, this style of "outing" is historically most associated with revealing those suspected of being closeted gays and lesbians. So called Indianness is good enough for every purpose. I was only made aware of this list because it is commonly used by anti-protesters to discredit the activism of people on her list. A parody website lists her and like-minded natives as Karendians.. By claiming indigeneity without the recognition of Native nations, pretendians undermine a core tenant of tribal sovereignty: the ability for tribes to determine citizenship. Keeler has also added a Pee Dee tribal member to her list. Any findings should only be released publicly. In the hunting and fishing realm, they are mostly white men. The sisters also assert that Littlefeather's stories about their violent and impoverished upbringing were also patently false. Early false claims to Indigenous identity, often called "playing Indian", go back at least as far as the Boston Tea Party. A notorious and deeply unreliable 'pretendian hunter' making the claim that Sacheen Littlefeather wasn't Native is profoundly suspicious and i'm gonna need my non indigenous mutuals to generally . Her enemies among whom we do not consider ourselves, but she might think otherwise based on what youll read below say she tends to serve up disordered logic on a number of topics. The list represents the collective work of generations of Native peoplemany who paid the price with the shriveling of their prospects. But given the forced assimilation/cultural genocide thats gone on I cant help but feel she is complicit in that on the many occasions when she is wrong and shes wrong often. Theres never a situation where blackface is acceptable, especially not in Native organizing. Thats why we keep our Pow Wow Calendar up-to-date! You might be a pretendian if your star quilt was bought at Target or has Chewbacca on it. Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity, Inventing an Indigenous People in Algonquin Territory, Settler Colonialism + Native Ghosts: An Autoethnographic Account of the Imaginarium of Late Capitalist/Colonialist Storytelling, Waterloo, Ontario: University of Waterloo, Becoming Indian: The Struggle Over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-First Century, Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science, APTN Investigates: Cowboys and Pretendians, "Indigenous 'Race Shifting' Red Flags: A Quick Primer for Reporters and Others", Pretendians and Their Impact on Mtis Identity in the Academy, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pretendian&oldid=1138314384, Erika T. Wurth is a novelist claiming Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee descent whose novel, This page was last edited on 9 February 2023, at 01:08. She attached links to Ancestry.com with some names, which indicates at least some of this research is being conducted via Ancestry.com searches. The strongest rule of white culture is to speak when spoken to. Unclear how he got enrolled. Keeler doesnt mention if she reached out to Northern Cheyenne tribal officials. "Report on Conclusion of Preliminary Review in the Matter of Professor Ward Churchill". Believe it or not, some non-Indian folks, not steeped in this stuff, dont know what a Pretendian, a Defendian, a Karendian and/or a Kendian are. 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[19], By 1990, as noted in The New York Times Magazine, many years of "significant pushback by Native Americans against so-called Pretendians or Pretend Indians" resulted in the successful passage of the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 (IACA) - a truth-in-advertising law which prohibits misrepresentation in marketing of American Indian or Alaska Native arts and crafts products within the United States. Contrary to Littlefeather's half-century long claims, she has no White Mountain Apache or Yaqui heritage . "Well where's the proof" Here. Stephanie Fryberg is a Tulalip psychologist who received her Master's and Doctorate degrees from Stanford University, where in 2011 she was inducted into the Multicultural Hall of Fame.In the same year, she testified before Senate on Stolen Identities: The impact of racist stereotypes on Indigenous people.She previously taught psychology at the University of Arizona, at the Tulalip Community . Your email address will not be published. Individual tribes and nations determine who their citizens are. Apparently her real name is Harsha Patel and she is of Asian Indian descent. What Is Land Acknowledgement? This applies to accessing that Alleged Pretendian List AND the 'Keeler crime timeline' by @KaylaWayla20; both require a level of access to your information and/or email. Today, the groups gained fraudulent Vermont state recognition, under a nontransparent effort to hide their genealogies, if any were actually submitted of 99% of the members of these groups claiming to be Abenakis. To be clear: We were. Communing with the Dead: The 'New Mtis,' Mtis Identity Appropriation, and the Displacement of Living Mtis Culture. [21], While Harjo refers to "Native DNA", there is no DNA test that can reliably confirm Native American ancestry, and no DNA test can indicate tribal origin. Sometimes family stories with no truth behind them run amuck. The rise of pretendian identities post-1960s can be explained by a number of factors. Jacqueline Keeler is a Native American writer and activist, enrolled in the Navajo Nation and of Yankton Dakota descent, who co-founded Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry (EONM), which seeks to end the use of Native American racial groups as mascots. UC Santa Barbara making progress on planned student housing development in partnership with visionary philanthropist Charlie Munger. Everyone on this list has made public claims through interviews, in books authored, documentaries, and even in Congressional testimony. '"[30] Rebecca Nagle (Cherokee Nation) voiced a similar position in 2019, writing for High Country News that, Pretendians perpetuate the myth that Native identity is determined by the individual, not the tribe or community, directly undermining tribal sovereignty and Native self-determination. Despite being enrolled in a federally recognized tribe (a term Keeler emphasizes a lot), Campbell remains on the alleged pretendian list. Arer you saying your uncle wouldnt have married her if she werent a Fauxcahontas? One way is to spread hate like . United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo (Mvskoke) writes: We have had to contend with an onslaught of what we call 'Pretendians', that is, non-Indigenous people assuming a Native identity. We become a spectacle for those who at best think of us as a Halloween costume idea. Then questions arose about her identity", "Sacheen Littlefeather and ethnic fraud why the truth is crucial, even if it means losing an American Indian hero", "Playing Indian Constitutes a Structural Form of Colonial Theft, and It Must be Tackled", "Mysterious letter linking 1,000 people to $1B Algonquin treaty likely fake, CBC investigation finds Author of conspiracy theory books says letter was dropped in his mailbox in 2011", "Health scientist Carrie Bourassa on immediate leave after scrutiny of her claim she's Indigenous", "Sacheen Littlefeather was a Native American icon. What is being done requires deep research, not gut feel. Most of the people mentioned in the V.E.S. In particular, the great-grandmother she claimed was Tlingit, Johanna Salaba, is well-documented as having emigrated from Russia in 1911; she was a Czech-speaking Russian. Wild seeing all the people come out against this abuse, including Public Indians who have been wronged by Keeler, as "Institutional Indian Country" stays well the fuck away. Rather than trying to heal the wound.. DNA tests are setting up other problems involving those who discover Native DNA [sic] in their bloodline. It is profitable to BECOME an Indian nowadays, and a laminated membership card by dubious groups such as the St. Francis-Sokoki group up in Swanton, or a Nulhegan membership card suffices today as proof of Abenaki descent. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. There are many angles to the story, and this one, while not the most crucial, piqued our interest due to the New York Post/Fox News connection and Fox News previous manipulation of photos.). [38] Research into her claims indicated that her ancestry is wholly European. I have met her in real life it seems like she has some trauma and baggage of her own to sort out. ), (Keeler is referring here, we think, to the fact that we define the already-established terms Karendian and Kendian within our piece with which she takes umbrage, but we assure you, no misogyny on our behalf was intended. A pretendian (portmanteau of pretend and Indian[1][2][3]) is a person who has falsely claimed Indigenous identity by claiming to be a citizen of a Native American or Indigenous Canadian tribal nation, or to be descended from Native ancestors. https://t.co/pW3Uwb8xdc, Kayla-Wayla (@KaylaWayla20) May 2, 2021. of people it has wanted to portray unflatteringly in the past, so this certainly could have been the case here. There's a post about . If a business violates the Act, it can face civil penalties or can be prosecuted and fined up to $1,000,000.[20]. I know some of these people who react negatively to . Keeler followed her piece with a Substack article, asking the question: Did the Academy apologize to a fraud?, Its a lie, Trudy Orlandi, Littlefeathers sister, told Keeler. This topic is complex and deeply personal and quite frankly it is nobody's fucking business, least of all any Non-Native/White person's. It is invasive, inappropriate, unethical, and a violation of one's personal and private life especially if you are outside of the community. At the same time, in the years following the Occupation of Alcatraz, the formation of Native American studies as a distinct form of area studies, and the awarding of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction to Kiowa author N. Scott Momaday, publishing programs and university departments began to be established specifically for or about Native American culture. At the same time, we were defining the long-established Karendian and Kendian terms not supporting misogyny and, again, we do believe this issue is of utmost importance, as we said in the original post. The Google doc can be viewed by requesting access with an email address. Among famous names like Johnny Depp and, Theres not a clear process on how this research is being conducted or how individuals are singled out for suspicion. While Jon Levine, the reporter of the Post piece, emailed back to say he grabbed the picture in question from Keelers Instagram, and he later tweeted as much, Keeler went a different routeone that we had been told in advance she might. "[9], Patrick Wolfe argues that the problem is more structural, stating that settler colonial ideology actively needs to erase and then reproduce Indigenous identity in order to create and justify claims to land and territory. In a statement to CBC News, the chief and council of the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation say that those they are seeking to remove "are fraudulently taking up Indigenous spaces in high academia and procurement opportunities. Keeler included places of employment, LinkedIn profiles and, in some cases, the names of their actual Native relatives or in-laws. All of those scholars are documented as having previous, and current working relationships with one or more of these Abenaki groups for years previous! From 2012 to this year. Lawrence is on the list. [32] Working with other Natives in tribal enrollment departments, genealogists and historians, they began following up on the names many had been hearing for years in tribal circles were not actually Native, asking about current community connections as well as researching family histories "as far back as the 1600s" to see if they had any ancestors who were Native or had ever lived in a tribal community. [38] Bourassa was placed on immediate leave from her post at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research after her claims of Indigenous ancestry were found to be baseless.[39]. https://wapo.st/3zCUpau. Im not sure who is investigating and what the consequences are, she said. [4][5][6][7] The term is a pejorative colloquialism, and if used without evidence could be considered defamatory. Who are hiding behind a serious BLM issue to deflect from their fraud. 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