In a school district near me, somebody - perhaps the superintendent - unilaterally and without notice (or input from the school board), decreed that the high school mascot of an Indian brave riding a horse was offensive. This upset the locals, and they held a rally. As you might expect, some "Indians" in town showed up to hog the TV camera and tell everyone how offensive and demeaning this mascot of 100 years was to them. I don't know what proof they offered that they were Indians. They said it, and that was good enough. Certainly good enough for a gullible TV reporter. Perhaps they got their official tribal ID cards from Lizzie Warren or this woman.
My idiot Marxist brother, with whom I have no relationship, insists he's part Shawnee. I did a DNA test: our parents passed on to us nothing but lily white western European DNA.
Are such people's lives so devoid of meaning, attention, the benefits of affirmative action, whatever - that they feel compelled to lie about something so utterly beyond their control?