[NYPOST] One of Hollywood’s leading Native American figures is being accused of faking her claims of Cherokee heritage, The Post can reveal.Betcha Iron Eyes Cody is turning over in his grave, assuming he's dead.
Award-winning Heather Rae, 56, serves on the Academy of Motion Pictures’ Indigenous Alliance, previously headed up the Sundance Institute’s Native American program and claims "my mother was Indian and my father was a cowboy." Multiple prior news reports have also cited her as having a Cherokee mother.
Just goes to show, anybody can say "Ugh."
But a watchdog group called the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds is now demanding the Academy and the producer drop her "false claims" while screeching muppets insist she’s at best 1/2048th Cherokee.
My son did some genealogical research and found out one of our ancestors was Monacan. Sadly, us Monacans are extinct, so I think I'll take a nap...
The group accuses her of profiting from usurping "real American Indian voices and perspectives" and being a fraudulent so-called "Pretendian."
Paleface spoke with forked tongue? Well, tut my tuts.
Rae is married to another Hollywood producer, Russell Friedenberg, and the eldest of their three children is actress Johnny Sequoyah, who currently stars in the reboot of Dexter.
Too much inside baseball for me.