🤣 Oh Kim. You don’t understand lineage. You’re not a direct descendant of those people. Someone having the same name as your single Lafromboise ancestor doesn’t also make them your ancestor. Your ignorance is hilarious 🤣 Also, frantically posting to try and claim indigeneity won’t work #pretendian
Kim - When trying to pretend you have been to Canada, you probably shouldn’t let ChatGPT make a welcome sign that doesn’t exist anywhere in the country.
Also, asking chatgpt to make you look Native is so gross. Real photos of you exist and people have met you in person #pretendian
Going into the New Year, we should realize that #Pretendian hunters are not #genealogical experts, academics, etc. This isn't denying their own #livedexperience. However, after the #lilygladstone fiasco, I think we need some time to reassess #sources.
Calling out “ #Pretendian behavior” as a #mentalhealth issue isn’t neutral, it’s pseudo-scientific #eugenics. Just because many Pretendians are white doesn’t make it okay to pathologize them. People with no mental health expertise diagnosing others is replicating white supremacist logic. #FNMI
#Pretendian hunters: "Pretendians have undiagnosed #mentalhealth issues like #narcissistic behavior". I can assure you #capitalism & #colonial systems are the issue. #Diagnosis and the #DSM are contested for their roots in #eugenics
Biological essentialism (“blood = truth”)
Purity logic
Collective punishment (entire categories of people dismissed)
Moral hierarchy of who is more or less “real”
Weaponization of identity to police others rather than dismantle power are methods #Pretendian Hunters are using. #FNMI
#pretendians are everywhere. Most aren’t doing it on purpose but some do seek power and profit from the clear cut lie. It’s never ok. #native #nativeamerican #pretendian #nativetwitter #indigenous #americaninfian #firstnation #firstnations
Taking opportunities and funding away from those of us with real stories and lived experiences . Another #pretendian who should be stripped of everything and every last dime! 🪶😡 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#ThomasKing is an exceptionally large piece of trash. How dare he steal an identity, steal awards, steal recognition for his false claims of Indiginety. Absolute garbage. #pretendian #stolenlives #fraud
With the one-time funding we received to support the new #bced Indigenous Studies courses, our school purchased several books by Thomas King.
I’d *really* like to get that money back so we can buy some actually #authentic #Indigenous texts.
#pretendian #thomasking #indigenousstudies
Many people alive today are #Indigenous because their ancestors survived #colonialism not because they can meet a checklist built by it. This is the part #Pretendian Hunters often ignore:
The survival story is not a cliché. It’s the dominant historical reality.
#Pretendian hunting, #self-ID policies, even #Gladue debates all of this ties back to one question:
Who controls the definition of “ #Indigenous”? Us? Or the state that has spent centuries trying to erase us?
My issue with “ #Pretendian hunting” and “identity fraud” isn’t that fraud doesn’t exist, it’s that we’re letting the #state decide what #Indigeneity means.
The #Pretendian crusade exists because repair never happened. No public apologies, no redistribution, no conversations just silence. In that silence, anger grew, and the state’s logic of #punishment took over our #kinship spaces.
Kevin Fujita is a nonprofit bureaucrat in Toronto. He's pretended to be an indigenous person to climb the nonprofit ladder and become an imposter-leader. An embarrassing #pretendian
www.facebook.com/groups/40858...
Linda Black Elk is not a member of the Catawba nation. She's Korean and white. I'm stunned at how much clout she has online. #pretendian
www.catawba.com/storage/app/...
The problem isn’t simple. Some critique #Pretendian hunting as #purity policing correctly, but others use it to attack, divide, or muddy the waters. Without addressing the systemic roots of #fraud and #commodification, the conversation itself risks perpetuating harm.
Adam DePaul NOT #Lenape. NOT chief.White man pretending to be native,like mother Shelly DePaul. Google search-debunking fakes. #TempleUniversity shouldn't use #fakeIndians" #Pretendian pejorative colloquialism #IndigenousIdentityFraud, #nonNativeperson falsely & publicly claiming #IndigenousIdentity
Mu video statement on the Circe Sturm #pretendian investigation after the TAAF press release. See previous post.
Though the dangers of #Pretendian hunting: Fixation on #authenticity and exclusive origin undermines solidarity and supports the logics of #nationalism, #statehood, and settler #colonialism.
Culture Vulture! This man is a #FRAUD! Steals native Culture! This is a genocidal step! #Pretendian #FAKE chuck is a fake. He is NOT Lenape 🚫
Whether it’s celebrity callouts for #Zionism or #Pretendian hunters, I keep seeing the same pattern: outrage over individuals becomes the main event.
There needs to be more sovereign based #Indigenous schools & education systems that aren't businesses like mainstream academia that coopts culture, and that no one can be sure isn't filtered through #pretendian knowledge anyway.
Like self indigenizers probably made up most of the exit voters being polled. Another way in which #pretendian claims cause us all kinds of grief.
The YouTuber citing Markwayne Mullin. I can't think of a single comment on him I won't get harassed for by some internet NDN so 😑
Her Order of Canada was rescinded last fall.
I was hoping The Academy Awards would strip her of her Oscar.
She should be criminally charged with fraud and ordered to repay everything.
Every #pretendian should be punished. 🪶😡
Michelle Cyca on the risks of challenging settler #pretendian theft:
"Journalists like me and Leo have won or been nominated for awards and advanced our careers by covering pretendians, but many Indigenous people I’ve spoken to have been threatened, bullied, or ostracized for speaking out."
Another alleged #pretendian case in Canada:
"Cambrian is beginning a process to verify claims of indigeneity when verification is required.
'We have already begun an Indigenous-led discussion to develop a process for verification of Indigenous identity where such verification is needed.'"
A senior employee at #CambrianCollege in #GreaterSudbury has been accused of being a #Pretendian.
