Opinion: The Real Problem With Jacqueline Keeler’s ‘Alleged Pretendian’ List Posted By Angelina Newsom May 14th, 2021 Last Updated on: May 19th, 2021 shares You can’t. Unless a person shares their background and history, appearance isn’t going to give anything away. Sometimes people exploit this by claiming Native ancestry. Sometimes family stories with no truth behind them run amuck. Recently, there’s been a lot of publicity surrounding high-profile cases of individuals falsely claiming Indigenous American ancestry while working in entertainment and other industries. In an apparent response to these incidents, Navajo and Yankton Dakota writer Jacqueline Keeler recently created an “alleged pretendian” list—a spreadsheet of people she thinks are pretending to be Indian.