{"id":1244095,"date":"2022-01-26T16:37:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T21:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1244095"},"modified":"2022-01-26T16:37:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T21:37:14","slug":"npr-laments-pretending-to-be-indian-for-a-job-or-college-for-30-minutes-but-never-mentions-one-very-famous-fake-indian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/npr-laments-pretending-to-be-indian-for-a-job-or-college-for-30-minutes-but-never-mentions-one-very-famous-fake-indian\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR Laments \u2018Pretending To Be Indian For A Job Or College\u2019 For 30 Minutes But Never Mentions One Very Famous Fake Indian"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">44<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnpr-laments-pretending-to-be-indian-for-a-job-or-college-for-30-minutes-but-never-mentions-one-very-famous-fake-indian%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1244095&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>A National Public Radio (NPR) program released Wednesday failed to mention America\u2019s most famous fake Indian in a segment discussing people who lie about being Native American.<\/p>\n<p>The episode, titled \u201cPlaying Pretendian,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/01\/19\/1074258028\/playing-pretendian\">discussed<\/a> the nation\u2019s long history of appropriating Native American clothes and culture in addition to a recent trend described as \u201cpeople pretending to be Indian for a job or college\u201d through affirmative action programs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">People lie about being Native American all the time \u2013 on college applications, on job applications, in casual conversation. But how do \u201cPretendians\u201d hurt real Indigenous people and communities? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fvKq6HjzG5\">https:\/\/t.co\/fvKq6HjzG5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cristina Silva (@cristymsilva) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cristymsilva\/status\/1486390786547609602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The hosts did not mention <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/06\/20\/trump-regrets-calling-elizabeth-warren-pocahontas\/\">Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren<\/a>, who famously claimed to be Native American for several decades before a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/10\/15\/warren-releases-dna-test\/\">DNA test revealed<\/a> that she was approximately 1\/1,024 Native American. <strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/19\/neil-gorsuch-sonia-sotomayor-npr\/\">(RELATED: Gorsuch, Sotomayor Push Back On NPR Story Claiming He Refused To Wear A Mask Despite Request)<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/04\/senator-investigation-federal-reserve-officials-ethically-questionable-stock-market-trades-pandemic-elizabeth-warren\/\">Warren<\/a> listed herself as Native American in a Harvard Law School directory in the 1990\u2019s, and she even submitted a recipe she identified as \u201cCherokee\u201d to a Native American cookbook, according to a Daily Caller <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/10\/15\/warren-releases-dna-test\/\">report<\/a>. Warren reportedly said in 2012 that her aunt used to say Warren\u2019s grandfather \u201chad high cheek bones like all of the Indians do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cPlaying Pretendian\u201d episode involved discussion of the various ways that actual Native Americans are harmed and excluded from diversity programs by those who claim a native identity dishonestly or based on distant, unidentifiable relatives. <strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/14\/please-dont-call-manger-elon-musk-tweet-karen-democrat-elizabeth-warren-tax-increase-savage-comeback\/\">(RELATED: \u2018Please Don\u2019t Call The Manager\u2019: Elon Musk Unleashes On Elizabeth Warren For Calling Him A \u2018Freeloader\u2019)<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When a guest pointed out that Native identity is complicated due to centuries of displacement and forced assimilation, one of the hosts complained about people who are \u201cplaying up things like that flimsy DNA test that tells them they\u2019re native who will also check that box on the census.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A National Public Radio (NPR) program released Wednesday failed to mention America\u2019s most famous fake Indian in a segment discussing people who lie about being Native American.The episode, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1244095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}