Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. & Emily C. Van Alst

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Tribal Alliance Against Frauds (TAAF) released a 70-page report on the claims made by Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. and his daughter, Emily C. Van Alst. I'm not going to lay everything out in a post but will instead direct people to the report.

The report is available at this link:
https://tribalallianceagainstfrauds.org/van-alst

In my opinion, there is ample evidence of the harm done by both Theodore Van Alst and Emily Van Alst. While I am generally sympathetic to second generation pretendians, Emily Van Alst has expanded upon the false claims of her father and profited from it.

Theodore Van Alst and Emily Van Alst have claimed to be members of the Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians, Inc. which is a Corporation Posing as an Indigenous Nation (CPAIN). The Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians, Inc. website claims to require documented lineal descent from one the seven historical bands: https://www.mackinacbands.org/enrollment. The TAAF report (page 11) lays out why this isn't true for Theodore Van Alst and Emily Van Alst. It isn't even consistent with their earlier claims of descent from other tribes.

TAAF was incredibly thorough. 

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Link to Fake Indians blog post: https://ancestorstealing.blogspot.com/2023/10/little-big-wasicu-white-pretendian-lies.html

What rolls down here is about Theodore C. Van Alst:

For this pretendian blogpost, we will look at how TVA, an avowed expert in American Indian Studies, misled a Portland State University hiring committee with their false claims to American Indian ancestry. This is important, since the candidate and their false claims inform their scholarly output, academic ethics and integrity, and the potential pedagogy they employ in the classroom; All of which compromise the ethical standards of university community and are harmful to legitimate American Indian students and communities who interact with the university. With that, we appreciate the efforts of former students and subordinates of Dr. Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., (aka TVA) who submitted some of the information included in this post.