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@DinaGWhit @washingtonpost Did a terrible covering the actual reporting (mine in the @sfchronicle that spurred the article. AND the issue of Pretendianism and the political nature of Native identity. 
@DinaGWhit @washingtonpost @sfchronicle They even got the way the Alleged Pretendians list works wrong. We verify stated claims, so there is no need to remove folks from the list if we do.
@DinaGWhit @washingtonpost @sfchronicle And the whole point of addressing Pretendianism is to make it clear who a Native American person is and who we are not. This @washingtonpost article fails to do that, giving space for fraud.
Today I sit down with Jacqueline Keeler (@jfkeeler) to discuss the dark secret of activist Sacheen Littlefeather and the epidemic of #pretendians.
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So you mean you can trust Mexican records but not US ones?
Still doesn’t change #SacheenLittlefeather ancestors didn’t identify with the tribe when they came to AZ and haven’t since then. Or that Littlefeather added the claim some 20 years after her White Mountain Apache claim.
Still doesn’t change #SacheenLittlefeather ancestors didn’t identify with the tribe when they came to AZ and haven’t since then. Or that Littlefeather added the claim some 20 years after her White Mountain Apache claim.
And the only person #SacheenLittlefeather’s sister Roz heard who speculated on the claim was her white mother. Her sister Trudy never heard such a claim.
And 1819? My kids have an Italian ancestor who moved to Canada around then. Does this make them Italian?
And 1819? My kids have an Italian ancestor who moved to Canada around then. Does this make them Italian?
And an ancestor in Mexico from 1819 would not make #SacheenLittlefeather American Indian/Native American which is a political designation as I explained here:
The firestorm around the #SacheenLittlefeather allegations has had me glued to Twitter for the last few days with a sense of creeping dread. I finally saw the tweet I knew was coming… one directed at me and people like me, who have been displaced, adopted out or disconnected (1)
There are people who believe that people like me, who are reconnecting to community and culture, should sit down and shut up, that we should not show leadership, that we don’t have the lived experience of indigeneity. This is false. We are Indigenous and we are alive (2)
Displacement and interference in our connection to culture IS an Indigenous experience. The last residential school closed in Canada in 1996. What happens to us in our lives and what takes us back to culture are important and should be talked about. We are survivors and our (3)
Good time to remember: when Apache & Yaqui actor activist Sacheen Littlefeather declined Oscar in 1973 on behalf of Marlon Brando in protest of depiction & treatment of Native Americans actor John Wayne had to be restrained from rushing stage - presumably to remove her.
Such a moving display of composure & class by Sacheen Littlefeather at the Academy Awards in 1973 speaking against racist depictions & violence against Native Americans.
"Regarding the Academy’s apology to me, we Indians are very patient people—it’s only been 50 years!” Sacheen Littlefeather re Academy of Motion Picture Arts issuing formal apology in 2022 for racist taunts & she endured that night in 1973 & being blacklisted afterwards.
