The Pretendians is a Canadian television documentary film, directed by Drew Hayden Taylor and released in 2022.
[1] The film explores the issue of people falsely claiming Indigenous status despite a lack of any documented First Nations, Métis or Inuit heritage, covering the issue from a variety of facets including the production of fake Indigenous art and the efforts to track down a significant false claimant of Indigenous identity who has resisted any efforts to confront him on it.
[2] The film debuted on September 30, 2022, as an episode of The Passionate Eye.
[2] The film won the Donald Brittain Award for best social or political television documentary at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023.
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