"Nayn, nayn, zeyt nisht meshugge."
Posted on 05/28/2024 1:08:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Native American campaigners are raising questions about the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first-ever curator of Native American art — claiming she does not belong to a federally recognized tribe in the US, The Post has learned.
Patricia Marroquin Norby was hired with great fanfare in 2020, after what the museum said was “a long and competitive search,” as its “inaugural Associate Curator of Native American Art” in its American Wing. For years, Marroquin Norby, 53, described herself — including in legal filings — as “Apache,” “Eastern Apache” and “Nde” as well as “Purepacha/Tarascan,” an indigenous group from the northwestern part of Michoacan, Mexico.
A year after her appointment, the New York Times described her as “the museum’s first Native American curator and its first curator of Native American art” in a glowing profile.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
A friend, white, was talking to a Shoshone Indian who was working on the Ute reservation. “How are they treating you?”, he asked. “About 5% better than they would treat you”, he replied. “Can’t wait to go home!”
Who cares…? As long as a person “identifies” as something, their “own truths” override objective truth and reality. Nothing to see here.
Ward probably applied for the job and sued when he didn’t get it.
“With pretendians, we’ve noticed a lot of red flags,” said Native American writer and activist Jacqueline Keeler, who first exposed Littlefeather. “One of those is shifting of Native identities. You can see that with [Marroquin] Norby and her shifting claims.”
Lianna Costantino, a co-founder of the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds, which tracks pretendians, agreed. The nonprofit added the genealogical research compiled by Griffin to its website on Saturday.
“They [pretendians] constantly shift from one tribe to another and claim to be indigenous from Mexico, which is a lot harder to prove,” Costantino told The Post Friday. “She [Marroquin Norby] has nothing to show that she has a connection to the Purepecha in Mexico.”
https://nypost.com/2022/01/01/alleged-pretendians-list-exposes-allegedly-fake-native-americans/
there is a list
She’s an American-continent Indian. There’s no dispute about that.
Yeah, she could have fooled me, for she certainly appears to be Indian to me, though I must admit she looks quite different than Elizabeth Warren who we know is an Indian for real. 🤣
Pretendian: great word!
I just smile as I read all the expert opinions about me on these kinds of threads.
"Nayn, nayn, zeyt nisht meshugge."
At the risk of getting bogged down, when I say “expert opinions about me” I’m referring to my tribal background - not saying I’m actually this Norbert person.
She could be fake.
They weren’t here “ first”.
Sick of their entitled whining.
“The Met really needs to educate themselves about American Indian sovereignty,” Costantino* said. “They are so obsessed with DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion] that they are not doing their due diligence, and when they don’t do the work, they are doing a disservice to the Native community, to people who have suffered erasure. They are just erasing them again.”*According to the article, Lianna Costantino is a co-founder of the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds, which tracks “pretendians.”
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