
Why do people fake Indigenous ancestry?
The Big Story
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The Evolution of Indigenous Stories
Since maybe 2020, it seems like every few months, there's another high profile story like this. You see people claiming to have ancestry with a broad cultural group. And often, these claims will change over time, the way Joseph Boynton's did. But other times you see what I think could only be called like a total fabrication of identity.
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