A Professor Was a Twitter Hoax – The New York Times

Ms. McLaughlin has prompted particular frustration and disgust by posing as a Hopi woman, right as the coronavirus has caused disproportionate harm to Indigenous communities in the United States.

There are millions who want to be us, said Jacqueline Keeler, a writer and the editor of Pollen Nation, a Native-led magazine. These people are centering themselves in our issues, they are heading Native American departments, they are telling Native students what they can and can t study it s to protect their own position. And so it does change our ability to advocate for ourselves when we are constantly being replaced by frauds, white people or other people of different backgrounds pretending to be us.

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