Canada Land, funded by you.

Angel, this is the last episode of our season, and there's still one big thing I don't really understand.

Maybe you do.

What's the big thing?

I still don't understand why people become pretendients.

It's still just so weird to me that people do this.

It just seems like so much work keeping up the act all the time.

I mean, we have talked about the benefits, though. Some of them are running money scams. Some of them

are trying to get the cushy job or the perks that are meant for natives. And some of them

are trying to get cast in a movie or get out of jail early. There's a lot of clear reasons

why people fake it. True, but how many of them know they're faking it? Don't you get the feeling

that most of these people, maybe even all of them actually believe they're legit? Yeah, they

really do seem to have convinced themselves. So, Robert, here's an idea for our last episode. Why don't

we just ask the people why they fake it? Well, we tried that with Guillaume Carl and you see how that went.

The people that don't believe I'm native, they can kiss my Indian ass. You can't just go to somebody

who's still faking it. They'll just tell you I'm not faking.

True. But there are folks who have come clean, and they've apologized, like Elizabeth Warren,

for instance. I am not a tribal citizen. Tribes and only tribes determine citizenship.

When I was growing up in Oklahoma, those were our family's stories.

That said, there really is an important distinction of tribal citizenship.

I am not a member of a tribe.

And I have apologized for not being more sensitive to that distinction.

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