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Adrienne Keene

@NativeApprops

Native Appropriations blog, NOTABLE NATIVE PEOPLE, co-host szn 1+2 #AllMyRelationsPodcast. ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ (Cherokee Nation). She/Her. (on semi-permanent hiatus)

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Just popping up to say hello! (Hi!! How’s everyone been??) and let y’all know that my book NOTABLE NATIVE PEOPLE: 50 INDIGENOUS LEADERS, DREAMERS, AND CHANGEMAKERS FROM PAST AND PRESENT is available for preorder! Ah! In stores 10/5! penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623292/n

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Pretendian hunter crony causes timeline meltdown over chronically online Irish butter take was not an intersection I anticipated. 2023 is really something.

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Thanks everyone! It’s been located on the very hidden, secret…Washington post website. Appreciate the help!

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Warren releases video on her Native American heritage

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released a video on her family's heritage, featuring personal records, a review of her DNA and interviews with family.

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Ok I’m embarrassed how quickly

found this because I swear I looked for a very long time over multiple days and I’m usually very good at internet research.😂 I’m going to screen record just in case!!

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Question: does anyone have a downloaded copy of Elizabeth Warren’s original DNA test reveal video from 2018? It seems to have been thoroughly scrubbed from the internet and I need it for…reasons. Wado!

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Honestly a little honored because I’m in good company (and obvs am anti fascist)

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Thanks to folks who warned me I was on that list—rarely on here anymore but locking down for the time being.

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Like goddamn we need a support group, "I was fooled by a fucking ethnic fraud and now I have serious trust issues."

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âpihtawikosisân

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Every time a pretendian is uncovered, there are dozens, if not more, actual Indigenous people who are sitting there wondering "what the fuck do I do now?" It's so harmful.

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What do we do with the work of pretendians? What if you co-authored with them? What if they were your thesis or dissertation supervisor? What if they helped you get access to opportunities? What if you had a friendship with them?

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That person MINED YOU FOR INFORMATION to form their fake identity. That relationship was extractive. For sure you are going to wonder if you allowed it to happen, and you'll second guess yourself about what you should have done, but the blame is on the fraud. They did this.

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We need to start having conversations about how we support people who have been directly impacted by pretendians. First, I want to assert that NO ONE should be blaming any Indigenous person who was sucked in. If a pretendian was your supervisor, your friend, etc.

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"I do not think it is right": A scholar who made a name for herself in the Native food sovereignty movement has vowed to stop claiming to be of Native descent -- after doing so for decades. #LizHoover #ElizabethHoover #FoodSovereignty #Pretendians

Native food sovereignty figure admits no tribal connections

A scholar who has made a name for herself in Native food sovereignty has vowed to stop claiming to be of “Mohawk/Mi’kmaq descent” despite doing so for decades.

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I don’t wish this on anyone.

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Native people who spent hundreds of hours researching and attempting to verify claims. Who turned into investigative reporters. Who begged people in power to care. Who questioned years of friendship and their entire realities.

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Know that for every one of these cases there is a web of actual Native people left devastated and emotionally wrecked in the wake.

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Native food sovereignty figure comes clean about 'identity'

Elizabeth Hoover aka Liz Hoover admits no tribal affiliation in new statement

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Lucas Brown Eyes

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It’s #IndigenousPeoplesDay and Netflix has released Spirit Rangers! It’s an amazing show, so please go watch it! And then watch it again became first week streaming numbers are so important. If we want to see more Native representation we have to come out big for these shows! twitter.com/netflix/status

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(We’re also doing a live podcast recording on Friday before the book signing but I think we sold out!)

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Then Saturday 8/20 Project 562, UNE, and All My Relations podcast are having a pop up shop at Form and Concept. Lots of cool UNE and AMR merch, prints from Matika, more books from me, come hang out! 10-3pm.

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I’ll have books for sale but also feel free to bring your copies from wherever! I didn’t get to do a book tour because of Omicron, so I’d love to meet/chat with y’all and celebrate the amazing folks in the book.

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Siyo! Popping back on to share that I’m doing a book signing for NOTABLE NATIVE PEOPLE in Santa Fe on Friday 8/19!

@formandconcept

gallery, 4pm, followed by a reception with

@UrbanNativeEra

until 6pm! Free!

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Being native has everything to do with community care, and making these distinctions protects everyone involved: those who are researching, those who are reconnecting, and those who have grown up in their communities their entire lives. /end

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I think a lot less harm would be done if people were more open about this. Making this distinction would prevent people from being suspicious about your identity, and it would shield reconnecting natives from constantly being lumped in with those who are researching. 7

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Beautiful thread from

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building on our discussions of "reconnecting" versus "researching" from yesterday. (see my feed if you missed it)

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(Bear with me, this is a 16 tweet-long thread) There is an influx of people who call themselves reconnecting natives because they have one or two native ancestors from several generations back. The question “what are you reconnecting to” has been on my mind lately. 1

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(Bear with me, this is a 16 tweet-long thread) There is an influx of people who call themselves reconnecting natives because they have one or two native ancestors from several generations back. The question “what are you reconnecting to” has been on my mind lately. 1

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*ominous voice* Get out while you still can.

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You can be a kick ass accomplice and fight like hell to support Indigenous peoples without claiming ties you don’t have. Because your lie will catch up with you eventually—it always does. And at that point it’s impossible to extract yourself and you’ve lost everything.

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I guess I wish people would just stop lying—by omission or otherwise. Folks in Indian country understand disconnection. Don’t be ashamed if that’s your experience, just be honest. But if you’re taking a vague story and weaving a whole entire life off lies? Stopp. Just stop.

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Returns to twitter…writes an essay. 😂 Ok I’ll be quiet now and want to hear more of y’all’s thoughts! Then I’ll probs exit again for another 6 months. 👋🏻

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Think of it as wanting to honor the true story of your ancestors, whether they are Native or not. They deserve that respect.

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But plainly and seriously, in the kindest of ways, holding only an unverified family story of ancestry isn’t reconnecting. Please, please put in the necessary and often messy work before taking up that identity.

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For every boundary drawn there’s always someone left out who shouldn’t be, so I hope we can still be expansive. I hate that all the folks falsifying their Native identities has caused the beautiful and important process of reconnection to become vilified/questioned.

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And if folks ask you questions about your family or where you come from it’s because they’re looking for kin, not gatekeeping. If you can’t answer the questions, return to research phase and maybe wait before claiming a tribal nation. That said,

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I also hope folks who use the phrase “reconnecting” to describe themselves are taking it as the verb it is—meaning they’re taking action. Finding ways to be in community, learning, listening (so much listening!), volunteering, serving.

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So maybe “I’m researching my heritage” is a helpful reframing rather than “I’m reconnecting to my nation” if you’re at that point?

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To me, to reconnect you need to have something tangible to reconnect to. You need to know the point of disconnection to repair the break. Otherwise you’re still in the “researching” phase. Which is ok and a necessary process.

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Appreciate all the thoughtful replies! I’ll add my incomplete thoughts I tried to articulate on IG (with the caveat those who were adopted out and their descendants are always excluded from this—very different context/journey):

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4) Finding a way to respectfully and effectively contribute to the Indigenous community (both the people my family comes from and the Indigenous community at large). This list has stayed relatively the same throughout my life. I love your podcast btw.

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For me, Reconnecting means 4 things: 1) Finding family members and contributing to healing my family's trauma, 2) Understanding what being Native means to my diasporic family, 3) Reaching out to other Haud. to learn the cultural values, stories, and traditions I am invited to. .. twitter.com/NativeApprops/

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I always think it’s important to recognize why there was a disconnect in the first place. I like to remind people that those that feel a disconnect have been directly impacted by colonialism and white supremacy

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