Yeah, I guess I wouldn’t have expected the Indians to be super-big on queer artists’ collectives.
Indians don’t have very many beliefs because they are always too drunk to even think, but insofar as they are for or against things, they are against gay sex.
A woman who co-founded an LGBT Native American artists’ collective has left the organization after it was reported she was actually white .
Kay LeClaire, who went by nibiiwakamigkwe, says she has left the art collective, called giige, after reports surfaced accusing her of being of German, Swedish, and French Canadian ancestry.
And most importantly, no Indigenous family is claiming them to contradict the people who called this out. These folks really did their homework.
— Hominy Momminy (@quallabeanbread) January 1, 2023
I was just talking with someone about how common hair color changes and tanning are with these folks but we don’t immediately catch it because of fashion.
Every ancestor was researched going back to the 1700-1800s on every single line. That is so much work!— Hominy Momminy (@quallabeanbread) January 2, 2023
“I am sorry. A lot of information has come to my attention since late December. I am still processing it all and do not yet know how to respond adequately. What I can do now is offer change. Moving forward, my efforts will be towards reducing harm by following the directions provided by Native community members and community-specified proxies. Currently, this means that I am not using the Ojibwe name given to me and am removing myself from all community spaces, positions, projects, and grants and will not seek new ones. Any culturally related items I hold are being redistributed back in community, either to the original makers and gift-givers when possible or elsewhere as determined by community members. Thank you,” LeClaire said in a statement to Madison365.
In a lengthy statement on Instagram, giige confirmed LeClaire was no longer with the collective and wished to extend its “gratitude and utmost sympathy to the Indigenous community.”
Faking being an Indian seems to be getting more and more difficult.
That’s a shame. It was very profitable while it lasted.
Why would a person with privilege so desperately want to become the oppressed?
Really gets the noggin’ joggin’ https://t.co/mXtRLwbI56
— Rob (@rob_calgary) January 5, 2023