A growing number of "Pretendian" artists and the potential repercussions | InFocus

It's a bizarre phenomenon - people pretending to be Indigenous to get jobs or grants or even just attention, because it's cool to be us.

What's not funny is they are taking highly lucrative work from Indigenous people. They're teaching our histories. They're telling our stories.

On this episode, we are putting Indigenous identity fraud InFocus.
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APTN National News, uncovering the stories that others won't.

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