Ethnic Fraud and Red Face Posers

Ethnic Fraud amd "Red Face" Impersonators

April 6, 2014

By Woawachin Suta Win
The escalating debacle regarding whether or not the Rosebud Sioux Tribe’s Attorney General is an American Indian takes me back to my days as an undergraduate at a top university in the United states almost two decades ago.
There were roughly 200 students who “checked the box” as Americans Indians/Alaska Natives but who did not respond to outreach efforts by the student peer counseling program, never came by the American Indian Studies Center, and who otherwise blended into the mainstream of the public university we attended with a population upwards of 25,000 students.......
....... It seems to me that non-Indians often appropriate Native identity in the United States not only to take advantage of perceived benefits in higher education and employment as a racial minority, but also to oppress Natives by infiltrating our communities at the highest levels. Or, just as ominously, by placing themselves in positions of authority as Native Americans within the mainstream a la Ward Churchill. While in his case, Mr Churchill (whose writings were fascinating and inspiring to me regardless of his status as a white man) was more radical than most Native radicals, in the local situation we appear to have the more common phenomenon of the fake Indian or wannabe being an apologist for the traditionally white institutions that figure prominently in the social problems we face and overcome every single day as individuals and as a people.

Cowboys & Indians March Together in Washington DC - On Horseback

On April 22nd, a group of ranchers, farmers and tribal communities from along the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline route, called the Cowboy Indian Alliance, will ride into Washington DC and set up camp near the White House to tell President Obama to reject the pipeline.
On April 27th, thousands of people will join them to stand together for a final message that the Keystone XL pipeline and the tar sands must be rejected — to protect this, and future generations. 
                                                             REJECT AND PROTECT - All Together To Protest XL Pipeline

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