The Pretendian Crisis

• Self-identifying appears to be an issue in Canada and US
• Potentially more 'fake' natives than real ones in Canada/US
• Fake tribe co-opted land and built a casino on it
• One man has created 50,000 fraudulent Indians (status card sales 80$ each, everyone who takes a DNA test qualifies)
• A person who paid to get Cherokee status in 1880 (to buy land) now has a millionaire descendent running for (US) congress on their heritage
• Can we trust the statistics when it comes to indigenous crime if a large percentage of the 'indigenous' people are... fake?
• Johnny Depp is a prominent Pretendian

Created: 2024-05-13 - Updated: 2024-05-13