#pretendian — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pretendian, aggregated by home.social.
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Jesse Wente, who worked as a producer on the screen adaptation of The Inconvenient Indian, speaks in a heartfelt and thoughtful way about the personal and professional impact of King's admission.
Listen to the podcast episode on Commotion, or a slightly edited Youtube video version, both linked in the CBC article I'm linking to below.
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The fall out from Thomas King's admission last week continues.
Tanya Talaga writes:
"The searing harm of Mr. King’s story...is that it plants doubt into the many sisters and brothers out there who want to find us and come back home. It leaves other truly Indigenous authors overlooked. It crowds out our own truthful stories from education curricula, from the zeitgeist, from Canadian arts spaces. It also makes the racists and denialists smile." -
Robert Jago takes a more critical view, writing in today's Toronto Star that the "revelation of King’s true ancestry was far from a surprise to Indigenous people. This has been a persistent rumour in Indian Country for years."
Jago quotes from a Facebook post by "Crystal Semaganis of the Ghost Warrior Society (a Pretendian hunting organization)" that "He was trying to get ahead of an imminent public relations disaster"
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Wow. Famous Canadian author Thomas King recently discovered that he is not indigenous.
King grew up believing his father was part Cherokee. His acknowledgement of this newly learned truth in Monday's Globe is a sharp contrast to Buffy Sainte Marie's refusal to address conflicting genealogical records.
But these stories are all so damaging and painful to both Canada and its indigenous communities.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-a-most-inconvenient-indian/
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-a-most-inconvenient-indian/
I'm sure many have you have heard the buzz about #thomasking...he's not #cherokee at all, not #indigenous, and never was.
According to King, he's devastated by this knowledge claiming he never knew and this has given him an identity crisis.
What do you think? Is he a #pretendian? Or was it honestly a case of mistaken heritage?
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Earlier this week, Buffy Sainte-Marie returned her Order of Canada: “It was very lovely to host the medals for awhile, but I return them with a good heart,” she says.
She stated that she is an American Citizen, and has always "made it completely clear" to the federal government she was not Canadian.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/cp-buffy-returns-order-of-canada-1.7474435
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Buffy Sainte-Marie has been stripped of her Order of Canada appointment. First reported in the National Post [1]
If you are new to the story, for more context, I recommend watching the original 2023 CBC investigation by The Fifth Estate [2]
And counterbalancing that by reading Michelle Cyca's article "What's the Point of 'Pretendian' Investiations?" [3]
[1] https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/buffy-sainte-marie-order-of-canada
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMsqCWNCUc4
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Global News BC: Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond removed from Order of Canada at own request https://globalnews.ca/news/10069918/mary-ellen-turpel-lafond-order-of-canada/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #MaryEllenTurpelLafond #OrderofCanada #Indigenous #pretendian #Canada
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@chema @thepoliticalcat
She is still at UC Berkeley, & still doing her thing.According to a letter made on behalf of Indigenous scholars & former students "We demand that Elizabeth Hoover resign from her position as Associate Professor of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management (ESPM) & leave UC Berkeley."
Eloquently said: https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vQBXq0rEI1qygmecbqjZtIBWORZc9ovd-Sl88SQcQ1OKyCXwOCkp18FVsO8MiGq3EstBSq1HN4YcKhN/pub?urp=gmail_link
#ElizabethHoover #LizHoover #UCBerkeley #Appropriation #PretendIndian #Pretendian #Indigenous #ESPM #Native
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Global News BC: Gill twins removed from Inuit enrollment list amid calls for RCMP to investigate https://globalnews.ca/news/9632608/gill-twins-removed-inuit-enrollment/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #IndigenousIdentityFraud #Inuitenrolmentlist #RCMPInvestigation #IdentityFraud #Indigeneity #Indigenous #pretendian #AmiraGill #Gilltwins #NadyaGill #Canada #Fraud #Inuit #Inuk #RCMP
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"The cases that have come to the attention of the media & have therefore become sort of nationally known are only the tip of the iceberg. There are thousands of people who are #claiming an #Indigenous #identity and I would say most of them, a lot of them are #illegitimate ” Teillet said. “According to professor Darryl Leroux, we’re talking over 100,000 people.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/9607344/calls-for-rcmp-to-investigate-gill-twins-claims-of-inuit-identity/amp#Fraud #NativeMastodon #pretendian #fraud #FalseClaims #Misappropriation #NativeCanada #IdentityFraud #Canada
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Global News BC: Noah family calls for RCMP to investigate Gill twins claims of Inuit identity https://globalnews.ca/news/9607344/calls-for-rcmp-to-investigate-gill-twins-claims-of-inuit-identity/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #claimingIndigenous #IdentityFraud #Indigeneity #Indigenous #pretendian #AminaGill #Gilltwins #NadyaGill #Canada #Fraud #Inuit
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I'm now going head to head W/ new #Indiginews editor because my friend quit being their editor due to clashes in ethics. I am NOT OK with them using a white ass #lying #pretendian & sex work recruiter as a spotlight person! I'm not going to be fucking quiet about it. Pretendian is using their article as 'foot in' to many vulnerable native communities across Canada. Grooms naive girls by trying to buy them, first.
#UnsafePerson #Exploiter #Abuser #BeAware #SayNO #PSA
https://indiginews.com/news/land-defenders-build-tipi-along-tmx-construction-route-in-burnaby
