Guys like this piss me off something fierce.

I’m the most white-presenting member of my mother’s family (I take more after my Scandinavian grandfather than do my cousins). I have struggled most of my adult life with how much of that part of my heritage I’m “allowed” to participate in before it becomes appropriation. …

To be fair, this was a common thing among Southerners to explain away darker features so no one would think they had a drop of black blood. Yes, it’s completely fucked up, but it’s a lie that was passed down over generations so people saying it today likely have no idea that it’s a lie.

This happened in my family - three generations believed we were Lakota descendants, in part because of a photo of an ancestor who appeared to be. Then a relative took a DNA test and nope.

I remember reading that when it came out, and being highly skeptical from the beginning. It simply seemed impossible to me that a small child could have survived being at a death camp like Auschwitz. Such things simply never happened. And of course the whole story turned out to be a complete fraud by someone who…

There is also the same with fake holocaust memoirs. I fell for this one, unfortunately.

This is enraging enough as an outsider, I can’t imagine how infuriating it must be to Natives, especially as there’s apparently not enough of a deterrent in terms of wide-ranging consequences to keep people from repeatedly doing this.

With a name like Smelcer he had to be bad.

Joseph Boyden

Didn’t Canada have a guy doing the same thing (an author pretending to be Native) who got fully outed last summer? Why is this a trend? This should not be a trend! One was enough!

It’s also a signal to people involved in Russia Tampering he will not hesitate to pardon them.

Tomorrow, in Texas...

Sardonicuss WRONGUSS! She has the “perplexed cow” face down. She doesn’t need to practice! It’s called FACTS and not the FAKE NEWS that you love to SPEW all over the CARPET when you realize what is HAPPENING to this COUNTRY emphasis on teh first SYLLABLE because I don’t know anymore NOOO!!!

It give Huckleberry two additional days to work on her “perplexed cow” face.

He totally dd.

she’s full of sh*t

Hillary would have pardoned him. Because they’re exactly the same, don’t you know? Three cheers for the world we live in now!

Arpaio is white and his crime was against brown people. That’s justice in Trump’s eyes.

She’s also a Daughter of the American Revolution on her dad’s side.

Yes. She’s both a DAR and a recent arrival. I need to read more about her as a politician because she’s impressive as anyone as a person. I could get on that Duckworth in 2020 bandwagon.