Ethnic Identity Fraud: In Conversation with Dr. Kim Tallbear

This week on ILL REPUTE! Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling welcome their very first guest! Dr. Kim Tallbear is a Native scholar who literally wrote the book on Native American DNA, and has become the defacto expert on self-indigenization, more commonly known as race shifting, ethnic fraud, or pretendianism. We talk with Dr. Tallbear about what indigenous ethnic fraud is, why it's perpetrated so easily and frequently, what the fraudsters get out of it, and what we can do to disrupt it.  Find Dr. Tallbear:  https://kimtallbear.substack.com/ https://mediaindigena.com/podcast/ https://www.amazon.com/Native-American-DNA-Belonging-Promise/dp/0816665869 Works Cited: Playing Indian Becoming Indian https://open.spotify.com/show/7w7liLa9F90MIdONjqoloL Other Pretendian Cases: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/04/a-professor-claimed-to-be-native-american-did-she-know-she-wasnt https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/magazine/cherokee-native-american-andrea-smith.html https://macleans.ca/longforms/the-curious-case-of-gina-adams-a-pretendian-investigation/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/michelle-latimer-kitigan-zibi-indigenous-identity-1.5845310 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-january-5-2017-1.3921340/indigenous-identity-and-the-case-of-joseph-boyden-1.3922327 https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Sacheen-Littlefeather-oscar-Native-pretendian-17520648.php https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMsqCWNCUc4 Contact Us:  [email protected] Follow Us:  ILL REPUTE! links: http://linktr.ee/illreputepod Sovereing Syre’s links: http://linktr.ee/sovereignsyre Ela Darling’s links: http://zez.am/eladarling Merch:  http://importantadult.com Support Us:  http://patreon.com/illrepute