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The rise of pretendian identities post-1960s can be explained by a number of factors. The reestablishment and exercise of tribal sovereignty among tribal nations (following the era of Indian termination policy) meant that many individuals raised away from tribal communities sought, and still seek, to reestablish their status as tribal citizens or to recover connections to tribal traditions.
On April 24, 2024, an occupation protest began at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, California. The protest was a part of pro-Palestine protests on university campuses campaigning for divestment from Israel. [1]
In 1902, Congress authorized the U.S. Court of Claims to began hearing cases related to the violation of Cherokee treaties. The Eastern Cherokee filed three claims alleging that the US government had violated the 1835 and 1846 Cherokee treaties.
Archibald Stansfeld Belaney (September 18, 1888 – April 13, 1938), commonly known as Grey Owl, was a popular writer, public speaker and conservationist.Born an Englishman, in the latter years of his life he passed as half-Indian, claiming he was the son of a Scottish man and an Apache woman.
The Pretendians is a Canadian television documentary film, directed by Drew Hayden Taylor and released in 2022. [1] The film explores the issue of people falsely claiming Indigenous status despite a lack of any documented First Nations, Métis or Inuit heritage, covering the issue from a variety of facets including the production of fake Indigenous art and the efforts to track down a ...
The 2024 pro-Palestinian occupation protest at Sciences Po was a series of pro-Palestinian protests that took place at Sciences Po in Paris. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The protest was part of a larger global movement of university protests in solidarity with Palestine, inspired by similar encampments at universities in the United States .
Dr. Nagam has claimed Métis, German and Syrian heritage, but the Winnipeg Free Press and Hamilton Spectator exposed her Pretendian ambitions, and the $18m she raised to support them, in August 2024. [6] [7] [8] Former students and colleagues reported the harm this caused to them and to their Indigenous cultures in the Brandon Sun. [9]
Occupations which appear to be obsolete in industrialized countries may still be carried out commercially in other parts of the world, for example charcoal burner. To be included in this list an obsolete occupation should in the past have employed significant numbers of workers (hundreds or thousands as evidenced by, for example, census data).