[starbase]

You inspired me to look it up. Here's a little blurb about it from Google:

The greatest and most recent theft of Aboriginal identity was by Leon Carmen, alias Wanda Koolmatrie, author of the book My Own Sweet Time. In March 1997, Leon Carmen, a 47-year-old white male, admitted he had invented the persona of Wanda Koolmatrie, allegedly a descendant of the Pitjantjatara people in South Australia and a member of the stolen generation.
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[dennisw]

And don't forget our most recent fake Indian who made millions from his phony baloney books

Former NC author's work on Indian life called fake Myrtle Beach Sun News, SC - Jan 27, 2006 RALEIGH, NC - A former Chapel Hill author isn't the Navajo Indian he claimed in nationally acclaimed memoirs about his troubled childhood growing up in the ...