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GFor thoise who did not read the article:
Here are other names they call her, “pretendians” or members of the “Wannabe tribe or “playing Indian.”
“King also shared more details about the 2007 conversation in which she and Richard Allen, a Cherokee policy analyst, met with Smith to discuss her claims of Cherokee identity. During that conversation, Smith told King and Allen that her mother had told her that she was Cherokee. According to Cornsilk’s timetable, however, Smith would have already received confirmation that she was not Cherokee twice by that time.
“In the address, Russell described a “bizarre” conversation in which Smith claimed that she “thought” that she was Cherokee but could not name a single Cherokee ancestor when asked.”
Her 2005 book Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
And it runs in the family, the Saint Paul School of Theology list her sister, Justine Smith as “a member of the Cherokee Nation” and refers to her “the first full-time Native American woman to serve in any full-time faculty position in theological education in North America.”