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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I was told that I had Native American (Indian). My grandfather walked with me through the forest on his property and pointed out ways of the Indians. I never thought anything about it, and I’ve never looked for any ancestors to prove that story. I’ve been too busy hunting my Scottish heritage. That was the other grandfather. He raised sheep and had a collie dog. I found my Scots people. As a child I leaned to love the Indians from Zane Grey books.
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