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Author: Brad Wheeler
Publication Date: November 24, 2025 - 15:05
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Inconvenient Indian author Thomas King says he is not part Cherokee
November 24, 2025
Thomas King, the award-winning Canadian-American author of such books as the 2020 novel Indians on Vacation and 2012’s The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, is not part Cherokee, as he long assumed himself to be.
In an exclusive interview with The Globe and Mail, the 82-year-old writer said he learned he was not Indigenous when he met recently with the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds, a whistle-blowing organization based in North Carolina that is dedicated to exposing false claims of Native American heritage.
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