The New York Times Outs Pretendian Andrea Smith (Republished)

On Tuesday, The New York Times Magazine published a piece, “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/magazine/cherokee-native-american-andrea-smith.html?referringSource=articleShare" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">The Native Scholar Who Wasn’t,</a>” written by Sarah Viren, a white nonfiction writing professor from Arizona State University, which examined the 30-year ethnic scam perpetrated by “Cherokee/Ojibway” Professor Andrea Smith. Smith, an already debunked fraud, teaches in the Ethnic Studies department at the University of California, Riverside. The paper of record in this country was not breaking news, but several years late to the story. In July 2015, Andrea “Andy” Smith had been publicly outed in an open letter published in Indian Country Today signed by Indigenous women scholars from across the United States. The issue was revisited during the 2017 coverage of NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal’s false claims to Black identity in national publications like The Daily Beast. <a href="https://medium.com/@dreamerkidsmatter/the-new-york-times-outs-pretendian-andrea-smith-republished-71a778fb3cd">Website</a>