This is a story that could have only come out of Madison. Okay, maybe Portland, Seattle, Austin and San Francisco. I can’t remember how many of these I’ve come across over the years. In a political system where you gain special privileges by identifying as a minority member, a whole lot of wokes, including a lady named Liz Warren, will try their hand at pretending to be an American Indian. That’s one reason why quite so many radical lefties identify as American Indian and why activist Indians are often white lefties.
Early in 2020, an Indigenous artist urged the owners of a new music venue in town to change its name.
It was called The Winnebago, after the street on which it stands. Many Indigenous people and allies let the owners know that wasn’t the best name for a white-owned music venue. One of them was nibiiwakamigkwe, also known as Kay LeClaire, a founding member and co-owner of the queer Indigenous artists’ collective giige, and budding leader of Madison’s Indigenous arts community.
It took several months, but the venue eventually relented and rebranded as The Burr Oak.
After a ridiculous bout of cancel culture and senseless virtue signaling berating an establishment for using the name of the street it’s on, Kay turned out to be as white as Warren.
“I’m glad the owners have decided to no longer profit from the identities of Indigenous peoples,” LeClaire wrote in an editorial for Our Lives Wisconsin. “I’m glad the name is going, but I’m not happy the institutions that allowed it to be stolen in the first place remain. For over 500 years, Indigenous Peoples have not controlled our narratives and representations. Our exclusion has been built into inclusion for others.”
Speaking of…
Since at least 2017, Kay LeClaire has claimed Métis, Oneida, Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, Cuban and Jewish heritage. Additionally, they identify as “two-spirit,” a term many Indigenous people use to describe a non-binary gender identity.
Lately, it seems as if we have almost as many fake Jews as fake Indians. And Cuban isn’t that hard to pull off.
Two-spirit has been added to the list of infinitely expanding gender identities But beneath all the identity politics masks, Kay was just a white woman looking to be exotic. But the lefties all but admit that they wanted to be fooled.
“There’s this appetite in Madison to just really want (diversity) and want to believe it so badly,” she said. “It’s like a craving for it. We’re craving culture here. And so then when someone like Kay comes forward, dressed as she did, and, you know, really being a loud voice for Native issues, it was fully consumed.”
And that’s why they’ll get fooled again.
They apparently attended the University of Wisconsin and in the summer of 2018 married fellow Hamilton alum Adam Pagenkopf, a research specialist at UW. In a post on their now-deleted Facebook account during the wedding planning, LeClaire referred to themself as “a 20-something white woman.”
So much for the non-binary Indian stuff.
It’s not as if these people are especially convincing. They literally walk around in a costume.
“I thought it was interesting how (they) often wore, it wasn’t like full regalia, but (they were) often wearing furs and clearly Indigenous-made clothing and it was almost like flying a flag. ‘Hi, I’m an indigenous woman.’ You don’t see that very often,” Goforth said. “Really, I don’t see that in my circles. I chalked that up to part of (their) role at the UW, bringing the exposure of culture forward, but now I look at it, and it was literally like a costume. It’s just so painful.”
But people want to believe. And there’s a lot of them out there.
They noted that the self-identified Native American population grew by 85% between the 2010 and 2020 census, from just over five million to well over nine million.
“That’s not population growth,” they said. “It’s a major issue. The government needs to ask if you are an enrolled member of a federally recognized tribe.
That’s a whole lot of fake Indians.
And the Dems are reluctant to do that because they want to create more minorities while undermining the established tribes.
What’s “two spirit”? Is that what they used to call “split personality”?
it’s one of the 800+ genders
Two spirit is a newer word describing those with both male and female spirits, non binary. There are 5 genders known to knowledge carriers by my ancestors.
What this person did is wrong, but what she taught publicly was truth.
Midewiwin, our sometimes called medicine people… know and share in a good way. Look to those with 3rd and 4th degree knowledge…
Colonized minds will never understand truths.
That’s when they mix the white lightning with the fake mescaline and get so inebriated that they are seeing double. The next day they claim they wee doing a rain dance if people laugh at them for peeing their pants in public.
Must have been the peyote.
Sounds like possession or schizophrenia.
Tonto was two spirit. Could see like an Eagle and hearing of a wolf.
A friend of mine has a child who changed teams and during the conversation where she first breathlessly, and proudly told me of this change of events, I first heard the phrase “two spirit”. I asked her if that was a new thing and she very seriously told me about the LONG tradition of gender non binary natives.
According to her, it’s been common for thousands of years and in fact, any given band would have one and they were usually the medicine man. I was surprised that she used the term “medicine man” but I guess it’s hard to adjust your vocabulary to whatever made up fad is popular as they move so quickly.
I listened quietly and let her finish her oration on how stunning/brave/smart these two spirited shamans are and were throughout the thousands of years that they practiced their arts.
When she’d finally stopped prattling on about them, I got to ask some questions and conversation came to an abrupt halt.
Questions are racist, you know. Our crime rate would plummet if interrogations were banned.
I asked, how can it be that a group of people who existed in extremely small numbers, apparently for thousands of years, could exist undetected, at the highest level of band authority?
Don’t you find it a strange coincidence that in a culture without a written language, Twin Spirited people appear out of nowhere with an apparently long and rich history of being in extremely powerful positions?
How can we know that medicine men are always Twin Spirited people when there are no records?
My questions were not received well and I’m pretty sure my friend has put a check mark on her internal list somewhere that counts me among the transphobes.
I meant to reply to your post, but mistakenly wrote my reply as a comment about your observation concerning “written language.”
Always beware white liberals who claim to be experts on someone else’s culture while trying to live it out.
Maybe that is their way to deal with their shame over being so utterly worthless. Being something they are not is upward mobility in their crispy little minds.
Perfect example of a white supremacist who knows what’s best for the indigenous people.
Two Spirit is a centuries old drink believed to have healing powers and said to have saved Chief Nochwhoits of the upper east Maine Fugarewe Nation. It consist of one part maize mash ,one part strained and heated Vermont tree sap , let ferment for 2 days. Serve with a pipe of peyote
I didn’t read all of the comments before I replied to AA above. We do seem to think alike. I guess that makes us shamans of some sort… or people who indulged in peyote and alcohol.
It is difficult to know your people and history without written language, most especially when your people have been diminished.
One of my ancestors dedicated himself to collect and write down many of the folk tales of African tribes. His work is still available for sale. After discovering my ancestor’s life work, I did a little research and found that western peoples have had a unique and powerful interest in discovery other peoples, to nurture them in western principles like writing, historical preservation, agriculture, water capture and management, principles of self-government, Christianity, etc.
If some people reject western principles, let them do so. It is hubris that we insist they become like us and live as we do. It is annihilation to invite them to live among us.
But our nation is for us. We are westernkind. Those who find our western culture and nation uncomfortable are not welcome to drain our lifeblood while overwhelming us with their hatred and destruction. They can go home. This is our home. We have no other.
Talk about “cultural appropriation.” This fraud seems have appropriated a whole bunch of cultures, including pathological liar culture. And her fraud won’t adversely impact her at all.
she’ll just reboot, change her name and play someone else.
In fairness to her, she does live in Madison, WI. Hypocrisy, lying, delusions, and insanity are cultural prerequisites Yet another former beautiful place ruined by drug-addled, confused victims of rampant drug abuse and the ideological perversion that always ensues.
I’m happy to say that we escaped from Madison many years ago, but it is even worse now than when we lived their.
So in order to “right the wrongs of the past” done to these minorities, the best course of action is to erase their very existence?
Ok, fine. The sooner we forget about all these so-called “oppressed peoples” the sooner their oppression will end, I suppose.
The high school I graduated from back in the 80s had “Redskins” as its mascot for about a century, but just this year changed it to “Red Storm” (which sounds like a Marxist and/or White Supremacist newsletter to me). I guess eventually we can pretend there were no Native Americans because there’s nothing named after them (of course I live in a state named after one Indian tribe in a city named after another tribe, so the PC police have their work cut out for them).
If the potential consequences of all this nonsense weren’t so bad it would almost be funny to watch.
Columbus, OH already disavowed Columbus.
Belief is all the left has…and the editorial pages of the NYT and WSJ.
the dolezal affliction is strong with her .
It seems that nowadays when an “Indian” says, “How!” the expected reply by the target is “How much?” A claim to be an Indian or for a cause said to be Indian is a credential accompanied by power. This must be completely rejected including not only the end demands, but the false assumptions from the jump. A business name, as mentioned here, is only small change. A bigger demand would be to strike down the name of Indiana. The appetite grows with the sacrificial offerings.
If we have a choice of being binary or non-binary, isnt that still a binary system?
This whole “2 spirit” thing i do believe that Indians used. However i feel they used it much like many of us use “bless your heart”. It is passive aggressive. Remember how “touched by the great spirit” was a nice way of calling a person bat shift crazy? Maybe one Indian said to another ” Dont stay in sucking lizard’s teepee, he is 2 spirit dont ya know?”
Anywho, this whole thing with people claiming to be Indians with 0 Indian blood in them really does P… me off. My great grandmother on my fathers side was Shawnee. And on mom’s side great grandma was Sioux. That gives me enough Indian heritage that i could claim all the bennies for being Indian. However i do not becuase i was raised as a white American of European decent. I do not now nor have i ever lived on a reservation, never been a member of a tribe, dont know the first thing about being an Indian. My view is leave it for the real Indians to benefit from.
Most Indians wouldn’t molest a crazy person. They believed that if they touched or killed the crazy person, the spirit possessing that person might then jump to them and make them crazy.
I’d never heard of “two spirit,” and figured it was just made up leftist crap like “kwanza,” or their redefining the word “cracker,” to mean an overseer.
How to mimic being Cuban?
Your favorite expletive is conejo [ ca nay ho ]
You ignore no parking signs.
Conejo is a rabbit. My Android™ isn’t serving me well.
There are thirty letters in the Spanish alphabet, one of them is enya, an “n” topped with a tilde, it is pronounced like ny, as in canyon. Which in Spanish is canon, except the middle n is an enya. The pronunciation is exactly the same as in English.
I’m not smart enough to change the input language. I’m a nineteenth century guy trapped in the twenty-first. As soon as Apple releases a time travel devise, I’m put of here.
Cone yo is heard thru out Miami.
Not that communication changes anything for the majority, but excellent fact to show how ridiculous saying Jews control America is. No one is putting Jewish on their papers, no benefits there.