Pretendian

English Alternative forms en pretendian Etymology en * :blend pretend Indian<alt:(Ind)ian> :afeq pre- tend -ian<id:related to> Pronunciation prĭ-tĕn′dē-ən en /pɹɪˈten.diː.ən/ ; /pɹɪˈtɛn.diː.ən/<a:also <<RP>>> RP,AuE en /pɹɪˈtɛn.di.ən/ ; /pɹɪˈtɛn.di.ʌn/<a:also <<ScE>>> GenAm,CanE,ScE en /pɹəˈten.diː.ən/ NZE en /pɾɪˈʈɛ(ː)n.ɖiː.an/ InE en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Pretendian.wav Southern England en ɛndi.ən 4 en Pre ten di an Noun en Q107313768 en informal derogatory A person who falsely claims to have Native American or Indigenous Canadian ancestry. en 2016 w:MaryJanice Davidson Danger, Sweetheart 104 Natalie waited, expecting the usual white platitude, It's okay; I'm one-sixteenth Cherokee myself, or perhaps a dose of American Indian Princess Syndrome, or an acknowledgment of the glut of Pretendians of late. Sarah Viren Andrea Smith The Native Scholar Who Wasn’t https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/magazine/cherokee-native-american-andrea-smith.html https://web.archive.org/web/20230628022515/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/magazine/cherokee-native-american-andrea-smith.html 2023-06-28 2021-05-25T09:00:17.000Z 26 Although the United States has a long history of white people “playing Indian,” as the scholar Philip J. Deloria calls it in his book of the same name, the 1990s saw the beginning of what would eventually be significant pushback by Native Americans against so-called Pretendians or Pretend Indians, including the successful passage of a national law prohibiting non-Native people from marketing their art as “Indian.” Leyland Cecco Karima Manji Canadian woman gets three years’ jail in first ever sentencing for a ‘Pretendian’ https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/28/canadian-woman-sentenced-inuit-benefit-fraud https://web.archive.org/web/20240905030831/https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/28/canadian-woman-sentenced-inuit-benefit-fraud 2024-09-05 2024-06-28T19:32:13.000Z A Canadian woman who fraudulently claimed her daughters were Inuit has been sentenced to three years in jail, in what is believed to be the first ever custodial sentence for a “Pretendian”. Derived terms en Pretendianism Translations a person who falsely claims to have Native American or Indigenous Canadian ancestry Q107313768 Polish: pl samozwańczy Indianin m-pr, pl samozwańcza Indianka f See also en fantasist fantast Further reading pretendian en https://www.rsdb.org/slur/pretendian The Racial Slur Database Native Americans who claim to be pure, but are just mixed-breeds. I suppose this could refer to any mixed -ian race. Pretendian 2026-05-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20250622182139/http://rsdb.org/slur/pretendian 2025-06-22 en People