[Ads-l] "Pretendians" is not a new word...

[Laurence Horn]

…and it’s one that likely figures among one of the recent ATNW compilations, but “self-indigenizer” is a new one on me.  

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/04/a-professor-claimed-to-be-native-american-did-she-know-she-wasnt

Kim TallBear, an enrolled member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate tribe and a professor of Native studies at the University of Alberta, guesses that a quarter of those who have checked the box for Native American in the academy are what she calls “self-Indigenizers,” people who either invent a Native heritage wholesale or play up a tenuous connection. “Most of the cases haven’t been made very public yet,” TallBear said.

Not exactly a euphemism, but not exactly not.

LH



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