Native American artists' collective founder revealed to be white: Report

A girl who co-founded an LGBT Native American artists' collective has left the group after it was reported she was really white.

Kay LeClaire, who glided by nibiiwakamigkwe, says she has left the artwork collective, known as giige, after reviews surfaced accusing her of being of German, Swedish, and French Canadian ancestry.

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“I'm sorry. A number of data has come to my consideration since late December. I'm nonetheless processing all of it and don't but know find out how to reply adequately. What I can do now could be provide change. Shifting ahead, my efforts shall be in direction of lowering hurt by following the instructions offered by Native neighborhood members and community-specified proxies. At present, which means that I'm not utilizing the Ojibwe title given to me and am eradicating myself from all neighborhood areas, positions, tasks, and grants and won't search new ones. Any culturally associated objects I maintain are being redistributed again in neighborhood, both to the unique makers and gift-givers when doable or elsewhere as decided by neighborhood members. Thanks,” LeClaire stated in an announcement to Madison365.

In a prolonged assertion on Instagram, giige confirmed LeClaire was not with the collective and wished to increase its "gratitude and utmost sympathy to the Indigenous neighborhood."

The case of LeClaire reportedly faking a Native American id comes months after Indigenous activist Sacheen Littlefeather, who famously rejected Marlon Brando's Oscar on his behalf in 1973, was accused of not being Native American by her siblings weeks after her loss of life.