Damn; it's getting as hard to find a real Indian as it is to find a genuine racial hate incident
/Don’t they realize that the only acceptable “self-identifiers” are the sexuality confused?
Following in the moccasins of Iron Eyes Cody and Elizabeth Warren, another self-identifying Indian turns out to be as much a fraud as NAACP heroine Rachael Dolenz:
Activist Sacheen Littlefeather exposed by sisters for reported fraudulent Native American identity: 'A lie'
Speaking separately to the San Francisco Chronicle, Trudy Orlandi and Rosalind Cruz shared that they are not ethnically Native American and that they identify as "Spanish." Littlefeather, the sisters said, was born Marie Louise Cruz but changed her name after rediscovering what she purportedly believed was her Native American heritage and becoming active in protests as a young woman.
Orlandi said, "It's a lie. … My father was who he was. His family came from Mexico, and my dad was born in Oxnard."
Sacheen Littlefeather famously rejected Marlon Brando's Academy Award for 'The Godfather' in 1973
Credit where due, Ms. Littlefeather and her fellow faux-tribesman did blaze a trail for future hucksters like Canadian Carrie Bourassa:
A Canadian medical researcher who rose to become the nation’s top voice on indigenous health has been ousted from her government job and her university professorship — after suspicious colleagues investigated her increasingly fanciful claims of Native American heritage and learned she was a fraud.
Carrie Bourassa, a public health expert who served as scientific director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health, was suspended on Nov. 1, five days after the state-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation published a lengthy expose on her background.
Far from being a member of the Métis nation, as she had long claimed, a laborious trace of Bourassa’s family tree revealed that her supposedly indigenous ancestors were in fact immigrant farmers who hailed from Russia, Poland, and Czechoslovakia.
There was once a person who spoke candidly about her racial identity but, alas, she was being ironic, and her white readership didn’t get the point.