Dear Pretendians Can You Help The Black Seminoles Prove Their Indian Ancestry?

#PRETENDIANSCOMEGETTHISSMOKE A pretendian (portmanteau of pretend and Indian[1][2][3]) is a person who has falsely claimed Indigenous identity by claiming to be a citizen of a Native American or Indigenous Canadian tribal nation, or to be descended from Native ancestors.[4][5][6][7] The term is a pejorative colloquialism, and if used without evidence could be considered defamatory. As a practice, being a pretendian is considered an extreme form of cultural appropriation,[8] especially if that individual then asserts that they can represent, and speak for, communities they do not belong to.[3][8][9][10] It is sometimes also referred to as a form of fraud,[1] ethnic fraud or race shifting