https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-a-most-inconvenient-indian/

I'm sure many have you have heard the buzz about #thomasking...he's not #cherokee at all, not #indigenous, and never was.

According to King, he's devastated by this knowledge claiming he never knew and this has given him an identity crisis.

What do you think? Is he a #pretendian? Or was it honestly a case of mistaken heritage?

#indigenous #identity #ethnicity #inconvenientindian

Thomas King: All my life, I believed I was Indigenous. Now, I must reckon with the inconvenient truth

At 82, I feel as though I’ve been ripped in half, a one-legged man in a two-legged story. Not the Indian I had in mind. Not an Indian at all

The Globe and Mail