How to Tell a Bear You're Native

Telling people you're native American when you're not native is a lot like telling a bear when you're a bear. Indigeneal filipad is what Louise Erdrick called them in a previous episode of the podcast. The word adds to indigenous filo, which is Latin for love. And patho as unpathos or pathology, which indicates a disease or suffering. That says that the love of indigenous people becomes a pathology when a white person assumes a Native identity and gets inside another person's skin.