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America’s Millions of Fake Indians Outnumber Real Indians

It’s not just Elizabeth Warren. America has a huge “Fake Indian” problem. It’s hard to know exactly how many people, often white leftists, falsely claim to be descended from the nation’s early Indian population, but census numbers show either a massive population boom or a sharp growth in fake Indians. According to the 2010 census, there were 2.9 million American Indians and Alaskans, and another 2.3 million who claimed to be a combination of Indians and another race or races. The 2020 census however shows that 3.7 million claimed to be American Indians or Alaskans, and another 5.9 million described themselves as part Indian. 5.2 million to 9.7 million is an 86.5% rise . And going from 4.1 million in 2000 to 5.2 million in 2010 and then almost 10 million suggests that what we’re seeing here is not a natural increase that happened through a baby boom. “Why the jump in the Native American population may be one of the hardest to explain,” CNN shrugged. But the Census Bureau provides a sim...