Pretendians: Indigenous Identity Fraud with Robert Jago and Angel Ellis
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For this episode, the hosts of the new podcast Pretendians, Robert Jago and Angel Ellis, explain Indigenous Identity Fraud, the phenomenon of scam artists pretending to be indigenous in order to receive certain kinds of benefits. We talk about the motivations of these Pretendians, how they get away with it, the effects these charlatans have on the indigenous peoples they attempt to emulate, and how these living caricatures overshadow the true identities of various indigenous communities.
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whoah. I never knew there were reasons other than being a greedy con artist for people to appropriate Indigenous identity. But especially in decades when people were hanging certain ethnicities, while romanticizing Natives, I can see why someone would escape into that identity. But con artists and, like, Coachella have no excuse