Posted on 03/26/2023 10:59:35 AM PDT by nickcarraway
One of Hollywood’s leading Native American figures is being accused of faking her claims of Cherokee heritage, The Post can reveal.
Award-winning Heather Rae, 56, serves on the Academy of Motion Pictures’ Indigenous Alliance, previously headed up the Sundance Institute’s Native American program and claims “my mother was Indian and my father was a cowboy.” Multiple prior news reports have also cited her as having a Cherokee mother.
But a watchdog group called the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds is now demanding the Academy and the producer drop her “false claims” while activists insist she’s at best 1/2048th Cherokee. The group accuses her of profiting from usurping “real American Indian voices and perspectives” and being a fraudulent so-called “Pretendian.”
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Let him go?
The pictures at the article are gross. I can’t look at the tattooed wannabes .
Yes. My lovely wide works under occasional contract for Indian Health Services on reservations all over the US and there are plenty real natives left.
Yes. My lovely wide works under occasional contract for Indian Health Services on reservations all over the US and there are plenty real natives left.
BTW, if you want to see examples of gov interference and the results just step on a reservation and it is in full view. This is what happens when the gov gets involved with reparations.
Neither was the fake Indian ‘princess’ that Marlon Brando dragged into anti-commercial salmon fishing fest in Seattle in the late 70s
Hollywood and America loves it’s fake Indians.
That’s not her. It’s someone named “Heather Rae Young.”
Here in Connecticut the Pequot granted tribal membership if you could prove 1/32 Pequot heritage. The rolls are now closed except to those born to two tribal member parents.
another Fauxcohontus !
LMAO
well if men can ID as women, why can anyone ID as Native American?
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Elizabeth Warren’s daughter via an invisible/immaculate conception yielding another Pretendian.
PRETENDIAN!!
Lol
You have died.😄😄
You’re right. The wife and I have been thru a few reservations during our travels. Not impressed with the government’s “management”.
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