Pretendian is a pejorative colloquialism used to reference a person who has falsely claimed Indigenous identity by professing to be so. Being a pretendian is considered a form of cultural appropriation - the act of taking or using things from a culture that is not your own, it is disrespectful.It includes the novelist Joseph Boyden and actor Johnny Depp and now Buffy Sainte-Marie.
Grey Owl was born in Hastings, England in an upper-middle-class home. He became a famed North American “Indian” conservationist. On emigrating to Canada in 1906 he spent his early years as a trapper, particularly within the Temagami wilderness area. “Grey Owl was a great impostor. He came out of the Temagami wilderness as a trapper/guide/forest ranger, to win international fame, many years later, as the author of some of the best nature books ever written. He used his fame in the early 1930's to become a champion for the preservation and protection of the Canadian wilderness. His stories within Tales of an Empty Cabin, published in 1936 and a 1937 film on his adventures, promoted the values of canoe tripping.
The Forest Reserves Act of 1898, an attempt at multiple-use management, identified the potential for the area. In 1901, planners set aside the Temagami Forest Reserve , through which the government envisioned a perpetual source of timber and public revenue. At the time, this was thought to be the largest reserve of red pine in central Canada. What was supposed to be an area of pine management, became an area of cutting leases.
References There remains the Grey Owl name and physical references in northeastern Ontario. There are the Grey Owl Camps, outfitters centred out of Biscotasing off of the Sultan Industrial Road .
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