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Native American Groups Allege Met Museum’s Curator Is ‘Pretendian’
New York Post ^ | May 28, 2024 | Isabel Vincent

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
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To: Seruzawa

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!”


41 posted on 05/28/2024 4:47:49 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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To: nickcarraway

Who cares…? As long as a person “identifies” as something, their “own truths” override objective truth and reality. Nothing to see here.


42 posted on 05/28/2024 5:20:01 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: Army Air Corps

Ward probably applied for the job and sued when he didn’t get it.


43 posted on 05/28/2024 5:23:56 PM PDT by Manic_Episode (A government of the government, by the government, for the government)
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To: nickcarraway

“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.”


she is flavor of the day.


44 posted on 05/28/2024 5:30:06 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: nickcarraway

https://nypost.com/2022/01/01/alleged-pretendians-list-exposes-allegedly-fake-native-americans/

there is a list


45 posted on 05/28/2024 5:32:33 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Robert DeLong

She’s an American-continent Indian. There’s no dispute about that.


46 posted on 05/28/2024 5:52:18 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: steve86

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. 🤣


47 posted on 05/28/2024 8:42:42 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: nickcarraway

Pretendian: great word!


48 posted on 05/28/2024 9:05:30 PM PDT by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

I just smile as I read all the expert opinions about me on these kinds of threads.


49 posted on 05/28/2024 9:23:07 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Redcitizen
For years, Marroquin Norby, 53, described herself — including in legal filings — as “Apache,” “Eastern Apache” and “Nde” as well as “Purepacha/Tarascan,”

When someone's tribal ancestry changes over time, that's the tell they're making it all up.

50 posted on 05/28/2024 9:41:46 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: nickcarraway

"Nayn, nayn, zeyt nisht meshugge."

51 posted on 05/28/2024 9:44:23 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

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.


52 posted on 05/28/2024 9:49:33 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: nickcarraway

They weren’t here “ first”.
Sick of their entitled whining.


53 posted on 05/29/2024 12:46:36 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF.)
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To: nickcarraway
“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.”


54 posted on 05/29/2024 9:49:59 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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