We are what we pretend to be,” Kurt Vonnegut famously wrote, “so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” Pretendians. The expose is, finally, everywhere. From academia to Oscars. People who come up with in their own minds an excuse to claim Indigenous status from the great Cherokee grandmother to today’s Pretendian that haunts the halls of academia, the time has come not just for Pretendians to be exposed, but to be held accountable for their actions. We can start by calling it what it is…fraud. These are not people who are claiming Indigenous status to further the cause of Indigenous people, but to grab onto “benefits” of being Indigenous. They are taking up places, largely in universities who for what ever reason went out hired an…
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