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    Aura Bogado‏Verified account @aurabogado 4 Mar 2014

    Honestly curious: How common is it for white folks to lie and say they're Native in order to have an even greater advantage on school apps?

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      2. Barbara Smith‏ @nanaslugdiva 4 Mar 2014
        Replying to @aurabogado

        @aurabogado “Native American.” She attributed it in part to students checking “native american” meaning: I was born in the U.S.

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      3. Aura Bogado‏Verified account @aurabogado 4 Mar 2014
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        @nanaslugdiva Wow. That's stunning!

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      2. Dr. Ethel Tungohan‏ @tungohan 4 Mar 2014
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        @aurabogado anecdotally, I know two folks who did it. Both were middle class white men claiming they needed AA so they did this.

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      3. Coya Hope‏ @coyahope 4 Mar 2014
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        @PhDerping @aurabogado That is beyond messed up. Wow.

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      1. Mitch Baker‏ @subtlerfugue 4 Mar 2014
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        @aurabogado I heard some woman from Massachusetts did it too.

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      1. Marisol Clark-Ibáñez, Ph.D.‏ @MCIcsusm 4 Mar 2014
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        @aurabogado A colleague just spoke w/ me about this -- explains why so many AmIn students are 'accepted' v. who shows up to their 1st day.

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      1. Veronica Ramshaw‏ @verolynne 4 Mar 2014
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        @aurabogado I don't know anyone personally who's done it. I've only ever heard stories about friends of friends.

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      1. Barbara Smith‏ @nanaslugdiva 4 Mar 2014
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        @aurabogado what advantage they were seeking, but with a segment of White folks, I suppose any adv is one worth having.

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      1. Barbara Smith‏ @nanaslugdiva 4 Mar 2014
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        @aurabogado trying to claim some weird advantage. I went to a public college that was not HIGHLY competitive. Not clear what

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      1. Barbara Smith‏ @nanaslugdiva 4 Mar 2014
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        @aurabogado which is one of the reason she always used to identify as “American Indian.” OTOH…I think it was nefarious. I think some were

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      1. Barbara Smith‏ @nanaslugdiva 4 Mar 2014
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        @aurabogado more than half of the students she called did not understand why they were being called and said “what?” when she mentioned

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      1. Barbara Smith‏ @nanaslugdiva 4 Mar 2014
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        @aurabogado they were adjusting to campus. Offer support and recs for resources. Note: I went to college in the late 1980s.

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      1. Barbara Smith‏ @nanaslugdiva 4 Mar 2014
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        @aurabogado talk to her a lot. At some point around October, she decided to call all the American Indian students on the phone to see how

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      1. Don’t eat Porg for Thanksgiving‏ @SpringaldJack 4 Mar 2014
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        @aurabogado I'd heard it speculated on a~s a nefarious thing someone might do/have done "so and so claimed to be native" but just as rumor.

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      1. Barbara Smith‏ @nanaslugdiva 4 Mar 2014
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        @aurabogado was on American Indian/Native American recruitment and student persistence. I was a student worker in the office and would talk

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      1. Barbara Smith‏ @nanaslugdiva 4 Mar 2014
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        @aurabogado it is COMMON. let me tell you a story. at my undergraduate institution, they hired an administrator/staff person whose focus

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      1. Transh Panda‏ @rebelwerewolf 4 Mar 2014
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        @aurabogado I knew a guy who would actually have qualified but bc he grew up "white", didn't feel he should say he's Native on apps.

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      1. Jason Byrne‏ @geekwithsoul 4 Mar 2014
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        @aurabogado Couldn't say, but as an amateur genealogist, I know it's fairly common for native ancestry to be claimed when no basis in fact.

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