This week on ILL REPUTE! Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling welcome their very first guest! Dr. Kim Tallbear is a Native scholar who literally wrote the book on Native American DNA, and has become the defacto expert on self-indigenization, more commonly known as race shifting, ethnic fraud, or pretendianism. We talk with Dr. Tallbear about what indigenous ethnic fraud is, why it's perpetrated so easily and frequently, what the fraudsters get out of it, and what we can do to disrupt it. 

Find Dr. Tallbear: 

https://kimtallbear.substack.com/

https://mediaindigena.com/podcast/

https://www.amazon.com/Native-American-DNA-Belonging-Promise/dp/0816665869

Works Cited:

Playing Indian

Becoming Indian

https://open.spotify.com/show/7w7liLa9F90MIdONjqoloL

Other Pretendian Cases:

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

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/magazine/cherokee-native-american-andrea-smith.html

https://macleans.ca/longforms/the-curious-case-of-gina-adams-a-pretendian-investigation/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/michelle-latimer-kitigan-zibi-indigenous-identity-1.5845310

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-january-5-2017-1.3921340/indigenous-identity-and-the-case-of-joseph-boyden-1.3922327

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Sacheen-Littlefeather-oscar-Native-pretendian-17520648.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMsqCWNCUc4

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