Canada Land, funded by you.

Hey Robert, did you know that here in Oklahoma we have one of the very first, card carrying, enrolled, Native American governors in U.S. history?

I did not know that.

Governor Kevin Stitt here. I'm actually a member of the Cherokees, and we love our Indian community.

Well, that sounds like progress.

Well, you'd hope so, wouldn't you? But, uh, unfortunately.

The current governor, Kevin Stitt's the most anti-Indian governor in the history of the state.

Let's say an Indian steals your car.

There hasn't been a governor in modern times that has destroyed that

nation-to-nation relationship. There are tribal governments who want Tulsa to look like the Navajo

reservation. The governor is bent on destroying tribal sovereignty, even if it costs the state

tens of millions of dollars.

For me to do something that's bad for Oklahoma, for the benefit of, you know, one race, I'm not

going to do it.

From Kandaland Podcasts, this is Pretendians, a show where we investigate the impact that fakes,

frauds, and phonies have on real native people.

My name is Robert Jago. I'm a freelance writer from the Quantland First Nation and Noxak Indian tribe.

And I'm Angel Ellis, a citizen of the Muskogee Creek Nation located in Olgy, Oklahoma.

I've been a writer, editor, journalist for about 15 years.

In the heartland, where the field stretched wide, there's a warrior rising to change back the tide.

He's one of your people.

He's got papers to prove it, but he doesn't show them off unless it's time to use it.

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