Native Americans throughout the University of California system are calling out scholars who claim Indigenous heritage without evidence and demanding action from campuses that hire them.

Last month Kiros Auld was featured on a National Public Radio program that was critical of the work of researchers who expose fake Indians, known as ‘Pretendians’. The program’s hosts said ...

Speakers to address 'identity fraud and theft' allegedly perpetrated by those who may have distant First Nations ancestry, ...

Pretendians have been with us since Grey Owl and, more recently, writer Joseph Boyden and filmmaker Michelle Latimer. The ...

A United States Premiere of “The Beguiling,”  a 15 and ½ minute short about native American Indians, premiered at SXSW Film and TV Festival Sunday, March ...

But the action comes after UC Native American scholars held their first symposium last year on what they say is a growing problem of what are called “Pretendians” — pretend Indians — in ...