Learn about Ethnic Fraud
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News Articles
The Race-shifting of Pretendians
NPR - Feb 23, 2022
By Sam Yellowhorse Kessler
He claimed Chumash ancestry and raised millions. But experts say he's not Chumash
LA Times - Dec 23, 2019
By Adam Elmahrek and Paul Pringle
UC Native Americans demand action against scholars claiming Indigenous roots without proof
LA Times - March 1, 2025
By Teresa Watanabe
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Academic Articles
Haley, Brian D., and Larry R. Wilcoxon. “How Spaniards Became Chumash and Other Tales of Ethnogenesis.” American Anthropologist, vol. 107, no. 3, 2005, pp. 432–45. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3567028. Accessed 10 Dec. 2025.
"These Neo-Chumash [ethnic frauds] who emerged in the 1970's lack Chumash or other Native Californian ancestry and are descended almost exclusively from the people who colonized California for Spain from 1769 to 1820" (p 332).
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