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.
“I’m still in shock,” Mr. King said, speaking from his home in Guelph, Ont.
To his credit …
All my life, I believed I was Indigenous. Now, I must reckon with the inconvenient truth
