We are what we pretend to be,\u201d Kurt Vonnegut famously wrote, \u201cso we must be careful about what we pretend to be.\u201d 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\u2019s 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 \u201cbenefits\u201d of being Indigenous. They are taking up places, largely in universities who for what ever reason went out hired an… <\/p>\n
We are what we pretend to be,\u201d Kurt Vonnegut famously wrote, \u201cso we must be careful about what we pretend to be.\u201d 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\u2019s 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 \u201cbenefits\u201d of being Indigenous. They are taking up places, largely in universities who for what ever reason went out hired an... <\/p>\n