{"id":1795600,"date":"2023-01-05T07:50:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T12:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1795600"},"modified":"2023-01-05T07:50:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T12:50:33","slug":"non-binary-founder-of-indigenous-artists-collective-accused-of-faking-native-american-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/non-binary-founder-of-indigenous-artists-collective-accused-of-faking-native-american-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNon-Binary\u201d Founder of Indigenous Artists\u2019 Collective Accused of Faking Native American Heritage"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fnon-binary-founder-of-indigenous-artists-collective-accused-of-faking-native-american-heritage%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=1795600&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-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/71a748fd-6a85-4c93-ac37-ec6eaed37af9.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" id=\"isPasted\">Co-owner of a \u201cqueer Indigenous artists\u2019 collective\u201d Wisconsin: A woman claimed to have faked her Native American roots. \u201cused the front to make money,\u201d The New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/01\/03\/wisconsin-artist-kay-leclaire-accused-of-faking-native-american-heritage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span>Kay LeClaire, who identifies with \u201cnon-binary,\u201d In an online forum, she was accused of being White after she claimed for years that her family was Oneida and Anishinaabe, Haudenosauneese, Haudenosaunee, Cuban, and German. LeClaire was a founding member in an art collective. She is well-known within the Indigenous arts community of Madison, Wisconsin. LeClaire was given the Indigenous name. \u201cNibiiwakamigkwe,\u201d The Post pointed out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to reports, LeClaire was awarded artist stipends. This includes a residency at the University of Wisconsin and speaking gigs. She also had art exhibitions that were based on her Native American heritage. However, there are other reasons. \u201chobbyist genealogist\u201d who did not reveal their identity posted evidence of LeClaire\u2019s real ancestry on an online forum. It was clear that LeClaire is French Canadian, Swedish and German descent.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI am sorry,\u201d LeClaire, reportedly, told local outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/madison365.com\/indigenous-arts-leader-activist-revealed-as-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madison365<\/a>. \u201cA lot of information has come to my attention since late December. I am still processing it all and do not yet know how to respond adequately. What I can do now is offer change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cMoving forward, my efforts will be towards reducing harm by following the directions provided by Native community members and community-specified proxies. Currently, this means that I am not using the Ojibwe name given to me and am removing myself from all community spaces, positions, projects, and grants and will not seek new ones,\u201d LeClaire added.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In an Instagram post, the art collective stated that it was ending its relationship with LeClaire Dec. 31, 2022.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cm7bcfyvTXL\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"><\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cEvidence has come to light indicating that Kay Le Claire has made false claims regarding their heritage, their art, and their position in the community,\u201d The organization stated. \u201cThis person has both gone against our inherent values and perpetuated harm within the Teejop community and beyond. Without our knowledge or consent, Kay Le Claire used our position as an Indigenous-led business to inflate their platform and expand their access to an already vulnerable community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The anonymous user who published LeClaire\u2019s ancestry online went by the screen name \u201cAdvancedSmite.\u201d Madison365 spoke to them and they revealed that they are Native American.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI have a skill and I saw something and I did what I could,\u201d They added later that they believed the \u201cpretendian problem is a long term, strategic issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Madison365 was told by Nipinet Landsem that they are Native American tattoo artists in the Madison area. \u201chad suspicions\u201d about LeClaire.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI was so relieved that someone else had called it out and I didn\u2019t have to. I\u2019ve had my suspicions, but I didn\u2019t have anything confirmed,\u201d Landsem said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Townhall reported that many high-profile activists were caught pretending to be Native American. This included Senator Elizabeth Warren (D\u2013MA), Carrie Bourassa from Canada, and Sacheen Littlefeather. Her sisters, who came forward last year to confirm that she was Mexican-American.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-owner of a \u201cqueer Indigenous artists\u2019 collective\u201d Wisconsin: A woman claimed to have faked her Native American roots. \u201cused the front to make money,\u201d The New York Post reported. Kay LeClaire, who identifies with \u201cnon-binary,\u201d In an online forum, she was accused of being White after she claimed for years that her family was Oneida &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1795603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[4029,4123,9396,5458,13358,7796,4148,13357,11186,11737,7057,3819],"class_list":["post-1795600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-accused","tag-american","tag-artists","tag-bongino","tag-collective","tag-faking","tag-founder","tag-heritage","tag-indigenous","tag-native","tag-non-binary","tag-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795600","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=1795600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1795603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}