Watchdog Says Hollywood’s Top “Native American” Woman Producer is Not Really Cherokee

Elvis Dunderhoff March 27, 2023

Heather Rae (center)

Pretending to be an Indian is very profitable.

White women are very intelligent and capable of easily making a lot of money because they know one simple thing: tell them you’re an Indian.

People think white women are stupid, lazy whores, but they bring in mad money by doing literally nothing but lying. Seems pretty smart to me.

New York Post:

One of Hollywood’s leading Native American figures is being accused of faking her claims of Cherokee heritage, The Post can reveal.

Award-winning Heather Rae, 56, serves on the Academy of Motion Pictures’ Indigenous Alliance, previously headed up the Sundance Institute’s Native American program and claims “my mother was Indian and my father was a cowboy.” Multiple prior news reports have also cited her as having a Cherokee mother.

But a watchdog group called the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds is now demanding the Academy and the producer drop her “false claims” while activists insist she’s at best 1/2048th Cherokee.

The group accuses her of profiting from usurping “real American Indian voices and perspectives” and being a fraudulent so-called “Pretendian.”

Rae is married to another Hollywood producer, Russell Friedenberg, and the eldest of their three children is actress Johnny Sequoyah, who currently stars in the reboot of Dexter.

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Rae, who was born in California and brought up in Idaho, is best known for “Frozen River.” It won both Sundance and an Independent Spirit Award, and was Oscar nominated.

In 2009, Variety named her as a top visionary while noting her half-Cherokee roots.

Over the years, she has burnished her credentials, which center on a claim that her mother, Barbara Riggs, was Cherokee.

She has a tattoo of Selu, a Cherokee corn goddess and in 2016 told a New Zealand conference: “I grew up in the state of Idaho, which is in Pacific Northwest, in the U.S.

“And, um, my mom was Indian and my dad’s a cowboy. I am not conflicted – I mean, there are times. It was interesting at home.”

She joined the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2016 and her place on its Indigenous Alliance makes her a key figure in its Native American outreach efforts.

Rae has cited her “Indian” ancestry throughout her successful producing and directing career, although she is not an enrolled member of any tribal nation.

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But TAFF highlights research which argues that far from being half-Indian, Rae has no ancestors recognized by the three Cherokee nations: the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, the Eastern Band of Cherokee and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians.

The research includes a divorce certificate from 1969 showing both of Rae’s parents, Vernon and Barbara Bybee, listed as white.

On her father’s side, one ancestor arrived from England in Virginia before the Pilgrims. And on her mother’s side, there is scant evidence of Cherokee connection, it says.

Census and other records show her maternal grandfather’s ancestors all identifying themselves as white.

Only one of them – Rae’s fourth great-grandparent, Jane E. Lassiter – has a possible Cherokee link, through a claim that Jane’s father Archibald Lassiter was one-eighth Cherokee, which would make Rae 1/2048th Indian.

But even that’s dubious – and potentially problematic, according to the Fake Indian project’s research highlighted by the Tribal Alliance.

They say records show that in 1832, Lassiter, won acreage in Alabama in the Cherokee Land Lottery, which redistributed areas throughout Georgia previously settled by Native Americans.

“It was ONLY open to non-Cherokees,” the Fake Indians blog continues. “Winning such a lottery is definitive proof of the ancestor NOT being Cherokee.”

This bitch also steals people’s photos from funerals.

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