Posted on 01/04/2023 10:05:57 AM PST by Twotone
Early in 2020, an Indigenous artist urged the owners of a new music venue in town to change its name.
It was called The Winnebago, after the street on which it stands. Many Indigenous people and allies let the owners know that wasn’t the best name for a white-owned music venue. One of them was nibiiwakamigkwe, also known as Kay LeClaire, a founding member and co-owner of the queer Indigenous artists’ collective giige, and budding leader of Madison’s Indigenous arts community.
It took several months, but the venue eventually relented and rebranded as The Burr Oak.
“I’m glad the owners have decided to no longer profit from the identities of Indigenous peoples,” LeClaire wrote in an editorial for Our Lives Wisconsin. “I’m glad the name is going, but I’m not happy the institutions that allowed it to be stolen in the first place remain. For over 500 years, Indigenous Peoples have not controlled our narratives and representations. Our exclusion has been built into inclusion for others.”
One problem with that narrative: LeClaire wasn’t Indigenous, and was, in fact, profiting from the identities of Indigenous peoples.
Since at least 2017, Kay LeClaire has claimed Métis, Oneida, Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, Cuban and Jewish heritage. Additionally, they identify as “two-spirit,” a term many Indigenous people use to describe a non-binary gender identity. In addition to becoming a member and co-owner of giige, LeClaire earned several artists’ stipends, a paid residency at the University of Wisconsin, a place on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Task Force and many speaking gigs and art exhibitions, not to mention a platform and trust of a community – all based on an ethnic identity that appears to have been fully fabricated.
LeClaire declined to be interviewed, but provided a statement by email to Madison365.
(Excerpt) Read more at madison365.com ...
Without the makeup she is as white as they come
I can prove my heritage.
It's no big deal...I don't know why people lie about it.
Kay LeClaire IDENTIFIES as a native.
I thought that kind of nonsense was okay with the lefties?
Well, even white people are indigenous to SOMEWHERE, so it’s not a lie.
“I don’t know why people lie about it.”
Well, in today’s society, being an ordinary old white person is boring, bland and nothing that anyone gets excited about. Plus if can check off one of those diversity boxes on the application you just might get a job or position you wouldn’t get otherwise.
If I were any whiter I’d be a lily. Swedish back as far as can be, Irish/English back to before the Revolutionary War.
Goforth said the white community in Madison is especially vulnerable to this kind of deception. “There’s this appetite in Madison to just really want (diversity) and want to believe it so badly,” she said. “It’s like a craving for it. We’re craving culture here. And so then when someone like Kay comes forward, dressed as she did, and, you know, really being a loud voice for Native issues, it was fully consumed.”
50 yr old "indigenous" candidate for mayor of a city in Wisconsin. Letting the cat out of the bag for anyone firing a synapse can deduce. First stage of this Marxist revolution: the redefining of the word hate and using it to label truth as evil, ie. talk-radio, conservative opinion, and actual history. Stage two: Remove all cultural references to founding father's America, ie, remove and deface statues, monuments, and icons. Rename landmarks, schools, institutions, and even private business's names. Stage three: rebrand white and western culture as evil. Result: White people starved for culture. Having been duped into consuming MSM as a result of stage one, are easily fed this pablum of self destruction and enslavement.
I’m always amazed at the number of blonde haired, blue eyed Indians I see.
My God. They stuck the “queer” in there. How many sexually screwed-up Indians are there?
Anyway, back to the main thrust - again, you can see where the “privilege” is by what people choose to ID as.
You have apparently been to Oklahoma, and met a great many Cherokees.
My two grandsons match that description (though light brown hair is more accurate). Their great grandmother was a card holding member of the tribe. In their tribe, membership is passed down based on parentage membership, not blood content. Tribal membership has been passed down with each generation. Their mother is 1/8th, they are both 1/16th, but legally they are tribal members.
My sisters were the same.
My grandmother was Pottawatomie...Dark hair and dark eyed. A couple of my Aunts went to Chilocco Indian School....My Aunt Virginia met her husband my Uncle there...He was full blood Creek....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilocco_Indian_Agricultural_School
I'm actually by marriage related to Jim Thrope.
I can trace my Indian family back to the mid late-1800's...The rolls before that...were difficult. As Pottawatomi names changed during their lives...and bands got factured..over the years.
There are three bands...The Forest Band, The Prairie Band...and the Citizen Band.
FWIW-
What’s up with these White women who feel they need to be somebody else to get recognized?
Insecurity doesn’t even begin to describe them. SMH...
“Well, in today’s society, being an ordinary old white person is boring, bland and nothing that anyone gets excited about”
Everybody is unique in their own ways.
This evil society dictates who is “important” by looks, heritage, age, etc.
Dirty Harry would say.....”that’s mighty white of her.”
Harry had everybody figured out.
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