The responsibility to avoid fraud

The Thomas King books are already boxed up to go. I’m left with sadness and anger that pretendians continue to take space and voice and harm us. But that’s what fraud is. I am also left with a renewed thankfulness for authentic authors like Tanya Talaga, Wab Kinew, Robert Joseph and Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Being First Nation in this country is not the easiest thing, writes Rose LeMay. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ROSE LEMAY

December 1, 2025

OTTAWA—Thomas King is not Cherokee. It turns out that most everybody who claims to be Cherokee is not. As a pretendian, the author has...

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