#pretendian — Public Fediverse posts

This book is written by a #pretendian. Fuck outta here with that. (Why did my mom and aunt suggest this!? Brandolini's law in full effect.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Education_of_Little_Tree

This book is written by a #pretendian. Fuck outta here with that. (Why did my mom and aunt suggest this!? Brandolini's law in full effect.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Education_of_Little_Tree

https://www.europesays.com/es/269751/ tallas, cuadros y un testamento del siglo XVI #arte #ArteYDiseño #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #belorado #Design #Diseño #Entertainment #Entretenimiento #ES #España #exmonjas #monasterio #orduna #piezas #pretendian #recuperadas #Spain #vender

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.

https://www.cbc.ca/arts/commotion/jesse-wente-on-thomas-king-and-finding-hope-in-a-hard-moment-9.6997006

#ThomasKing #Pretendian #JesseWente #Commotion

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.

https://www.cbc.ca/arts/commotion/jesse-wente-on-thomas-king-and-finding-hope-in-a-hard-moment-9.6997006

#ThomasKing #Pretendian #JesseWente #Commotion

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."

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-thomas-king-storytelling-feels-like-a-betrayal-cherokee/

#ThomasKing #Pretendian

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."

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-thomas-king-storytelling-feels-like-a-betrayal-cherokee/

#ThomasKing #Pretendian

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"

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/thomas-kings-admission-he-isnt-indigenous-is-just-the-first-step-this-is-what-has/article_ad5f13b9-20fa-49b3-9eb3-6a961a06f350.html

#ThomasKing #Pretendian #Indigenous #RobertJago

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"

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/thomas-kings-admission-he-isnt-indigenous-is-just-the-first-step-this-is-what-has/article_ad5f13b9-20fa-49b3-9eb3-6a961a06f350.html

#ThomasKing #Pretendian #Indigenous #RobertJago

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/

#ThomasKing #Indigenous #Pretendian #BuffySainteMarie

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/

#ThomasKing #Indigenous #Pretendian #BuffySainteMarie

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/

#ThomasKing #Indigenous #Pretendian #BuffySainteMarie

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/

#ThomasKing #Indigenous #Pretendian #BuffySainteMarie

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/

#ThomasKing #Indigenous #Pretendian #BuffySainteMarie

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?

#indigenous #identity #ethnicity #inconvenientindian

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?

#indigenous #identity #ethnicity #inconvenientindian

#ToxicPeople in #BritishColumbia preying on multiple Indigenous communities in Canada thread. Feel free to add your own, similar toxic shitbuckets of Canada to my list - which will be updated with other pathological liars running their shitgames all over BC.

This one is a mentally unstable, unmedicated bipolar nutjob who abandoned her only child & has lived out of motels/car for several years. Sex work is how she gets money. I have nothing against sex workers except for ones like her who try to traffick vulnerable young native girls & desperate older native women to get into sex work too - when they don't want to. I have a lot against ANYONE who tries to buy people with money & gifts as well - this is her way to get in with multiple naive ppl.

This #pretendian claims to be Cree. She is not #Indigenous whatsoever.

Her IG:
https://www.instagram.com/gypsy_canadian/

#ToxicPeople in #BritishColumbia preying on multiple Indigenous communities in Canada thread. Feel free to add your own, similar toxic shitbuckets of Canada to my list - which will be updated with other pathological liars running their shitgames all over BC.

This one is a mentally unstable, unmedicated bipolar nutjob who abandoned her only child & has lived out of motels/car for several years. Sex work is how she gets money. I have nothing against sex workers except for ones like her who try to traffick vulnerable young native girls & desperate older native women to get into sex work too - when they don't want to. I have a lot against ANYONE who tries to buy people with money & gifts as well - this is her way to get in with multiple naive ppl.

This #pretendian claims to be Cree. She is not #Indigenous whatsoever.

Her IG:
https://www.instagram.com/gypsy_canadian/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/buffy-sainte-marie-awards-1.7477741

Good. She's a thief, a fraud, and a liar. She stole these accolades, millions of dollars, fame and fortune from deserving authentic Indigenous talent.
I don't care what she did for #indigenous people, she did it as a #pretendian and that negates the whole thing. She crafted herself as Indigenous when she saw there was a profit to be made.
Disgusting.
Beverley Jean Santamaria, #karma always kicks your butt. I hope you're ashamed of yourself.

#buffysaintemarie #junos

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/buffy-sainte-marie-awards-1.7477741

Good. She's a thief, a fraud, and a liar. She stole these accolades, millions of dollars, fame and fortune from deserving authentic Indigenous talent.
I don't care what she did for #indigenous people, she did it as a #pretendian and that negates the whole thing. She crafted herself as Indigenous when she saw there was a profit to be made.
Disgusting.
Beverley Jean Santamaria, #karma always kicks your butt. I hope you're ashamed of yourself.

#buffysaintemarie #junos

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/buffy-sainte-marie-awards-1.7477741

Good. She's a thief, a fraud, and a liar. She stole these accolades, millions of dollars, fame and fortune from deserving authentic Indigenous talent.
I don't care what she did for #indigenous people, she did it as a #pretendian and that negates the whole thing. She crafted herself as Indigenous when she saw there was a profit to be made.
Disgusting.
Beverley Jean Santamaria, #karma always kicks your butt. I hope you're ashamed of yourself.

#buffysaintemarie #junos

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/buffy-sainte-marie-awards-1.7477741

Good. She's a thief, a fraud, and a liar. She stole these accolades, millions of dollars, fame and fortune from deserving authentic Indigenous talent.
I don't care what she did for #indigenous people, she did it as a #pretendian and that negates the whole thing. She crafted herself as Indigenous when she saw there was a profit to be made.
Disgusting.
Beverley Jean Santamaria, #karma always kicks your butt. I hope you're ashamed of yourself.

#buffysaintemarie #junos

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/buffy-sainte-marie-awards-1.7477741

Good. She's a thief, a fraud, and a liar. She stole these accolades, millions of dollars, fame and fortune from deserving authentic Indigenous talent.
I don't care what she did for #indigenous people, she did it as a #pretendian and that negates the whole thing. She crafted herself as Indigenous when she saw there was a profit to be made.
Disgusting.
Beverley Jean Santamaria, #karma always kicks your butt. I hope you're ashamed of yourself.

#buffysaintemarie #junos

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

#BuffySainteMarie #Pretendian #OrderOfCanada

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

#BuffySainteMarie #Pretendian #OrderOfCanada

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

#BuffySainteMarie #Pretendian #OrderOfCanada

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

#BuffySainteMarie #Pretendian #OrderOfCanada

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

#BuffySainteMarie #Pretendian #OrderOfCanada

Buffy Sainte-Marie has now also been stripped of her Polaris Music Prize, her five Juno Awards, and her induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.

Sainte-Marie recently confirmed that she is an American citizen, not a Canadian citizen. Questions remain around her Indigenous identity. Apparently, the awards have been stripped because she doesn't meet eligibility requirements.

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/buffy-sainte-marie-stripped-of-polaris-music-prize-juno-awards-and-canadian-music-hall-of/article_5e8a919c-fb65-11ef-9390-13958e06e671.html

#BuffySainteMarie #Pretendian #Polaris #Juno #Canada

Buffy Sainte-Marie has now also been stripped of her Polaris Music Prize, her five Juno Awards, and her induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.

Sainte-Marie recently confirmed that she is an American citizen, not a Canadian citizen. Questions remain around her Indigenous identity. Apparently, the awards have been stripped because she doesn't meet eligibility requirements.

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/buffy-sainte-marie-stripped-of-polaris-music-prize-juno-awards-and-canadian-music-hall-of/article_5e8a919c-fb65-11ef-9390-13958e06e671.html

#BuffySainteMarie #Pretendian #Polaris #Juno #Canada

Buffy Sainte-Marie has now also been stripped of her Polaris Music Prize, her five Juno Awards, and her induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.

Sainte-Marie recently confirmed that she is an American citizen, not a Canadian citizen. Questions remain around her Indigenous identity. Apparently, the awards have been stripped because she doesn't meet eligibility requirements.

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/buffy-sainte-marie-stripped-of-polaris-music-prize-juno-awards-and-canadian-music-hall-of/article_5e8a919c-fb65-11ef-9390-13958e06e671.html

#BuffySainteMarie #Pretendian #Polaris #Juno #Canada

Buffy Sainte-Marie has now also been stripped of her Polaris Music Prize, her five Juno Awards, and her induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.

Sainte-Marie recently confirmed that she is an American citizen, not a Canadian citizen. Questions remain around her Indigenous identity. Apparently, the awards have been stripped because she doesn't meet eligibility requirements.

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/buffy-sainte-marie-stripped-of-polaris-music-prize-juno-awards-and-canadian-music-hall-of/article_5e8a919c-fb65-11ef-9390-13958e06e671.html

#BuffySainteMarie #Pretendian #Polaris #Juno #Canada

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

[3] https://thewalrus.ca/pretendian-investigations/

#BuffySainteMarie #Pretendian #OrderOfCanada

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

[3] https://thewalrus.ca/pretendian-investigations/

#BuffySainteMarie #Pretendian #OrderOfCanada

FYI - I wrote to #Indiginews about Khursten being a #SexTrafficking #pretendian & they never edited the article for accuracy/honesty. Despite the writer of the article being OK with it being edited for accuracy. This is not being upfront & it is not cool for ANY media, much less #Indigenous media to lie about white girls being fucking #Cree.

This is the article:

https://indiginews.com/news/land-defenders-build-tipi-along-tmx-construction-route-in-burnaby

Please contact them & let them know that telling the public a white girl is a Cree is NOT OK:
https://indiginews.com/contact-us

FYI - I wrote to #Indiginews about Khursten being a #SexTrafficking #pretendian & they never edited the article for accuracy/honesty. Despite the writer of the article being OK with it being edited for accuracy. This is not being upfront & it is not cool for ANY media, much less #Indigenous media to lie about white girls being fucking #Cree.

This is the article:

https://indiginews.com/news/land-defenders-build-tipi-along-tmx-construction-route-in-burnaby

Please contact them & let them know that telling the public a white girl is a Cree is NOT OK:
https://indiginews.com/contact-us

A pretendian invented the medicine wheel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_wheel_(symbol)

#indigenous #pretendian #reconciliation

Finding out more reasons why my paternal ancestry is so very undocumented. Apparently, the records house for Newfoundland burnt down in the early 1950s. And I found out that the Salvation Army "teacher" at my dad's "school" (Newfoundland equivalent of Indian day school/residential school) destroyed all the records of students there.

Dad ran away and lied about his age to join the military.

Meanwhile, on Instagram, people I don't even know and have never met or spoken to are telling people I'm a Pretendian. I sure hate the whole Pretendian thing. Yes, there are liars out there trying to capitalize on false identities, but there are also modern-day witch hunters, and they are after me. Nothing I say will appease them. Blood quantum and colonialism are a helluva ride and I'd like off. #ResidentialSchools #BloodQuantum #Pretendian #WitchHunt

Finding out more reasons why my paternal ancestry is so very undocumented. Apparently, the records house for Newfoundland burnt down in the early 1950s. And I found out that the Salvation Army "teacher" at my dad's "school" (Newfoundland equivalent of Indian day school/residential school) destroyed all the records of students there.

Dad ran away and lied about his age to join the military.

Meanwhile, on Instagram, people I don't even know and have never met or spoken to are telling people I'm a Pretendian. I sure hate the whole Pretendian thing. Yes, there are liars out there trying to capitalize on false identities, but there are also modern-day witch hunters, and they are after me. Nothing I say will appease them. Blood quantum and colonialism are a helluva ride and I'd like off. #ResidentialSchools #BloodQuantum #Pretendian #WitchHunt

Tribal Alliance Against Frauds: "Paul Edward" Qwo-Li Driskill
by Lianna Costantino

"Being an American Indian person is not about who you claim to be, it is about who claims you. It is about an ancestral blood kinship, tribal belonging, tribal identity, cultural connection, and the centuries of intergenerational grief, trauma and oppression that our families have inherited and resiliently endured that settler families have not."

https://tribalallianceagainstfrauds.org/%22qwo-li%22-driskill

#Oregon #Pretendian #Whiteness

Tribal Alliance Against Frauds: "Paul Edward" Qwo-Li Driskill
by Lianna Costantino

"Being an American Indian person is not about who you claim to be, it is about who claims you. It is about an ancestral blood kinship, tribal belonging, tribal identity, cultural connection, and the centuries of intergenerational grief, trauma and oppression that our families have inherited and resiliently endured that settler families have not."

https://tribalallianceagainstfrauds.org/%22qwo-li%22-driskill

#Oregon #Pretendian #Whiteness

#Pretendian #Buffy #SaintMarie #Indigenous #Cree #Canada #FifthEstate #Saskatchewan
https://youtu.be/eMsqCWNCUc4?si=fcb6tjTRqnsB6lVq

#Pretendian #Buffy #SaintMarie #Indigenous #Cree #Canada #FifthEstate #Saskatchewan
https://youtu.be/eMsqCWNCUc4?si=fcb6tjTRqnsB6lVq

There should already be an option to add the proof of indigeneity to your employee file... but it's still self-identification only.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/indigenous-identity-public-service-1.7254555

#Indigenous #reconciliation #pretendian #publicservice #canadaday2024

So.. a Pretendian.. is actually.. Indian.. and this stuff has reached a whole new level of weird.

#pretendian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/28/canadian-woman-sentenced-inuit-benefit-fraud

To its 20 members, this is the heart of Canada’s newest "First Nation." But seven local Indigenous chiefs claim it is the site of a brazen fraud that threatens to erode their hard-fought constitutional rights.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/09/canada-first-nation-kawartha-lakes-validity

#ICYMI #Indigenous #Reconciliation #Pretendian #Canada

A Canadian woman who fraudulently claimed her daughters were Inuit has been sentenced to three years in jail, in what is believed to be the first ever custodial sentence for a “Pretendian”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/28/canadian-woman-sentenced-inuit-benefit-fraud

#Indigenous #Reconciliation #Pretendian #Canada

Iqaluit family pleased with 3 year sentence for Karima Manji

https://trl.ca/343

#Canada #Indigenous #Reconciliation #Pretendian

Canada must act to end the pretendian problem
#IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousIdentity #IndigenousRights #Canada #Pretendian #IdentityFraud #IdentityTheft #CulturalAppropriation #IndigenousSovereignty #Justice #AlgonquinLand #ProtectIndigenousCommunities
https://the-14.com/canada-must-act-to-end-the-pretendian-problem/

Canada must act to end the pretendian problem
#IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousIdentity #IndigenousRights #Canada #Pretendian #IdentityFraud #IdentityTheft #CulturalAppropriation #IndigenousSovereignty #Justice #AlgonquinLand #ProtectIndigenousCommunities
https://the-14.com/canada-must-act-to-end-the-pretendian-problem/