Indigenish | Pretendians #6
What Is Happening Here | Canadaland Investigates
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🗓️ 18 June 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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What makes people fake being Native? How do they explain it once the truth comes out? And is there any way to be not Native, but….Native adjacent? We talk to three people who lived it.
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| 0:00.0 | Canada Land, funded by you. |
| 0:04.0 | Angel, this is the last episode of our season, and there's still one big thing I don't really understand. |
| 0:10.0 | Maybe you do. |
| 0:11.0 | What's the big thing? |
| 0:12.0 | I still don't understand why people become pretendiates. It's still |
| 0:16.7 | just so weird to me that people do this. It just seems like so much work keeping up the act all the |
| 0:22.3 | time. I mean we the act all the time. |
| 0:23.4 | I mean we have talked about the benefits though. |
| 0:26.0 | Some of them are running money scams. |
| 0:28.3 | 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 |
| 0:35.8 | or get out of jail early. There's a lot of clear reasons why people fake it. |
| 0:40.0 | True, but how many of them know they're faking it? |
| 0:43.7 | Don't you get the feeling that most of these people, maybe even all of them actually believe |
| 0:47.8 | they're legit? |
| 0:48.8 | Yeah, they really do seem to have convinced themselves. |
| 0:52.7 | So, Robert, here's an idea for our last episode. |
| 0:56.3 | Why don't we just ask the people why they fake it? |
| 0:59.5 | Well, we tried that with Guillaume Carl and you see how that went. |
| 1:02.3 | The people that don't believe I'm native |
| 1:04.3 | they can kiss my endian ass. You can't just go to somebody who's still faking it. They'll just tell you I'm not faking. |
| 1:10.8 | True. But there are folks who have come clean and they've apologized like |
| 1:16.2 | Elizabeth Warren for instance. I am not a tribal citizen, tribes and only tribes |
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