MEDIA INDIGENA 246

Pretendian Prevention / MI 246

ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:

Punishment for Pretendians: it’s the back half of our extended look at colonial cosplay. And if part one was all about the problem, this part’s all about solutions. Just what is to be done about all these faux First Nations actors, authors and academics? What mechanisms might we use, and by whose authority? Does it make sense to target all the players, or would it be better to re-write the rules of the game?

Back with host/producer Rick Harp to assess what's been put forth as ways to sift through the grift are Candis Callison, Associate Professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the Graduate School of Journalism at UBC, and Kim TallBear, associate professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta as well as Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience & Environment.

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LINKS REFERENCED / CONSULTED THESE EPISODES:

• “The Alleged Pretendians List: What It Is & What It Is Not” Pollen Nation Magazine podcast

• “The Rotten Roots of Academia in America”: MEDIA INDIGENA 204

• Claiming to be Cherokee, contractors with white ancestry got $300 million Los Angeles Times

• Owner of Old Town Albuquerque Jewelry Stores Sentenced to Six Months  for Fraudulently Selling Filipino-Made Jewelry as Native American-Made U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of New Mexico

• “I am continually grossed out at how publics will individualize the 'pretendian' conversation...” @notvanishing tweet

• Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science (Kim TallBear) University of Minnesota Press

• Elder Brother and the Law of the People: Contemporary Kinship and Cowessess First Nation (Robert Alexander Innes) University of Manitoba Press

• “I hope that I never feel 'Indian enough' to start policing 'pretendians' and making lists...” @matikawilbur tweet

• Indigenous identity fraud law would be ‘a dividing line in the sand,’ says filmmaker Windspeaker

• Indigenous filmmaker wants fines, jail time for 'pretendians' who misrepresent their identity CBC News 

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