Pollen Nation Magazine

03/06/2025

Huh. Bluffy won’t admit she committed ethnic fraud and callously stole and monetized the experiences of First Nation and Native American adoptees? Can we say Pretendians are sick people?

Since being stripped of her Order of Canada medals, Buffy Sainte-Marie told the Canadian Press in a statement that she has returned the medals with ‘a good h...

12/12/2024

When fact-checking and your real ancestors are such a threat to you?

Still no retraction from NPR. Please write to them!

“My sole comment is that I encourage the many other victims of Ms. Keeler’s years-long stalking and harassment campaigns, independently described by third party journalists as ‘bullying’ and ‘not journalism,’ to prioritize their safety,” Auld said in an email to The Post.

“This a criminal matter and [we] will continue to refer all incidents to law enforcement.” [Kiros Auld]

Keeler denied she unfairly targeted anyone in her research.

“I am disappointed in NPR Code Switch’s rebroadcasting across the US during Native American Heritage Month a poorly reported Canadian podcast attacking an American Indian journalist’s work exposing people monetizing American Indian identity in the US,” Keeler told The Post, referring to the podcast which Auld appeared on, which is called “Pretendians” and first aired on the Canadaland network in Canada.”

Indigenous experts say that Kiros Auld is not linked to the Pamunkey indigenous group.

12/09/2024

Watching now. Live!

20241209_White House Tribal Nations Summit. Morning Session

11/07/2024

Here we are again.

“With Trump’s win, Utah Republican Rep. John Curtis predicted Tuesday night, the boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument — which Trump also dramatically reduced — will shrink again.”

A new Trump administration will set environmental and energy policies that will affect millions of acres in Utah.

10/14/2024

From Pollen Nation's founder:

"I am requesting your help today, on Indigenous Peoples Day (and my birthday), to fund a social media campaign to educate the public on the issue of Pretendianism. It is evident from this experience that people need a lot more education on why and what we do to hold con artists accountable for exploiting our trauma and falsely monetizing it.

It is also evident that my thousands of words written in carefully fact-checked articles are not being read. Nor are the interviews I have given on radio and television or presentations on panels being consulted.

So, I have decided to assemble a social media team to assist me in producing short TikToks or reels to disseminate the information I have to a larger audience. You can help in this by supporting my efforts via a GoFundMe I have launched: https://gofund.me/ac6c6334.

Thank you so much for any support you can provide. It will all make a difference, not just to me but to all Native people who struggle against marginalization and aggression from Pretendians. And yes, we will do a TikTok explaining how Pretendians harm Native people in the workplace and even in their families!"

https://open.substack.com/pub/jacquelinekeeler/p/indigenous-peoples-day-has-to-mean?r=1dfuy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

A library in Maryland recently canceled my event due to defamatory claims made by a Pretendian. In 2024, the library believed the fraud & silenced a Native woman ––this has to change.

10/11/2024

ATTENTION TRIBAL MEMBERS:

10/10/2024

"The Nez Perce Tribe is extremely disheartened to hear that before leaving a candidate forum in Kendrick last Monday, a state senator publicly told a Nez Perce Tribal member running for the Idaho legislature to “go back to where [she] came from.”

The Nez Perce Tribe has called this area home for tens of thousands of years and has a bond with this land that is deep and unbreakable. As its first inhabitants, we welcomed the Lewis and Clark expedition to the area in 1805, witnessed the birth of Idaho a little over 130 years ago, and have demonstrated a substantial, diversifying impact on Idaho’s economy.

Given our history and presence in the region, it is difficult to interpret the recent incident as anything other than an attempt to racially divide people while diminishing the value of some relative to others. The Nez Perce Tribe refuses to tolerate this kind of hateful and divisive politics and we ask other elected leaders in this region to stand with us in pushing back against such offensive behavior."

The Nez Perce Tribe is condemning remarks from a Republican politician who told a Native candidate to "go back to where you came from."

10/02/2024

"A group called the RECA Warriors — citizens of the Navajo and Hopi nations, as well as the Laguna, Jemez and Acoma Pueblos — made their way to Washington, D.C., to pressure the government to take action on the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.

In June, the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act expired, ending financial compensation for those affected by the U.S. uranium industry in the Southwest. This includes thousands of Native Americans who worked in and around uranium mines on reservations like the Navajo Nation, which has over 500 former mining sites that remain abandoned or unremediated today."

Native people from the Southwest gathered at the U.S. Capitol to call attention to the impacts of domestic uranium production and urge the House of Representatives to hold a vote to reauthorize and expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act

10/01/2024

The full text of the Catawba Nation's public statement regarding its actions to fight ethnic fraud, particularly Linda Black Elk's false claims (nee Bishop/Hensley/Jones).

10/01/2024

Who would think transporting toxic uranium waste through Navajo communities would be dangerous?

New map alert! A recent analysis of fatal vehicle accidents along the haul route uranium trucks travel between Canyon Mine (renamed Pinyon Plain Mine), a uranium mine near the Grand Canyon, and the White Mesa uranium mill in southeastern Utah shows an elevated risk along long stretches of the more than 300-mile route, especially on the Navajo Nation.
https://www.grandcanyontrust.org/blog/uranium-haul-route-risky-fatal-accident-data-shows

09/30/2024

Niagara Falls will be illuminated in orange tonight to honour the children who never returned, the survivors and all affected communities of residential schools. The internationally recognized Strong Water Singers will also be performing along the Niagara Parkway.

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