Coming Soon: Pretendians (Official Trailer)
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🗓️ 7 May 2024
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Summary
What do some of the most prominent and successful Indigenous artists, leaders and thinkers have in common? They aren’t Indigenous.
From major universities, to the halls of power, to Hollywood, there are people claiming to be Indigenous in the interest of power, money, and status. There are dozens of outrageous cases of Indigenous identity fraud that we know about, and likely thousands that we do not.
So why do these so-called “Pretendians” do it? How do they pull it off? And what happens when they are exposed?
Find out on Tuesday, May 14.
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| 0:00.0 | So Robert, tell the people what a pretendian. |
| 0:03.6 | It's just what it sounds like, Angel, a pretend Indian. |
| 0:06.4 | Pocahontas, she of the great tribal heritage, what tribe is it? |
| 0:11.1 | Uh, let me think about that one. |
| 0:13.0 | Someone who fakes being one of us? |
| 0:15.0 | Pretend Indians are all over the damn place. |
| 0:17.6 | You can't get away from them. |
| 0:19.2 | Someone who impersonates a native. |
| 0:20.9 | And we're not talking about the college girl who wears a |
| 0:22.8 | featherhead band to a Halloween party. No. We're talking about real |
| 0:26.5 | scammers and con artists. My six children with blonde hair and blue eyes, they all |
| 0:30.9 | have their Indian card. There are pretendians teaching at |
| 0:33.4 | universities, pretendians running governments, pretendians in Hollywood. |
| 0:36.6 | For years Daniel Smith has claimed that she has indigenous heritage. On our new podcast, pretendertinians, we'll tell you the incredible story of these jaw-dropping |
| 0:46.7 | frauds. |
| 0:47.7 | The people that don't believe I mean, they can kiss my Indian ass. |
| 0:52.4 | Who are they? |
| 0:53.0 | Why do they do it? |
| 0:54.0 | And how the heck do they keep getting away with it? |
| 0:56.0 | Listen to Pretendians on Spotify, |
| 0:58.0 | or wherever you get your podcasts. |
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