Canada had someone take on the complete identity as somebody of another culture. His name was

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Grey Owl and the truth did not come out until after he died. (It was on the news tonight)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Owl

Wikipedia:

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Grey Owl (or Wa-sha-quon-asin, from the Ojibwe wenjiganooshiinh, meaning "great horned owl" or "great grey owl&quot was the name Archibald Belaney (September 18, 1888 – April 13, 1938) chose for himself when he took on a First Nations identity as an adult. Born in England as Archibald Stansfeld Belaney, and migrating to Canada in the first decade of the 20th century, he rose to prominence as a notable author, lecturer, and one of the "most effective apostles of the wilderness".[1] In his studies of the Ojibwe, Belaney learned some native harvesting techniques and trapping skills. The pivotal moment of departure for Grey Owl's early conservation work was when he began his relationship with a young Iroquois girl named Gertrude Bernard, who assisted in his transition from trapper to conservationist.[2]

In working with the National Parks Branch, Grey Owl gained recognition and fame in his early career as a conservationist, becoming the subject of many films, and being established as the “‘caretaker of park animals’ at Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba” in 1931.[3] Together with his numerous articles, books, films and lectures, his views on conservation reached audiences beyond the borders of Canada, challenging people to re-evaluate their relationship with nature. His conservation views largely focused on humans' negative impact on nature through their commodification of nature's resources for profits, and a need for humans to develop a respect for the natural world.[4]


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1. And the movie version starred Pierce Brosnan...

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2. It was partially filmed in my neck of the woods.

[Kalidurga]

3. One of my relatives from waaaaaaaaay back.

Became enamored with a tribe close to the Delaware, IIRC and he insisted he was the grandson of an Indian woman and the father of the children she was a governess of. He insisted he was 1/4 Indian and fought for the legal status or some kind of certificate I forget which. Any who he was actually part Indian but it was more like 1/8 or 1/16 and his grand mother was not an Indian employed as a governess. I forget who his actual Indian ancestors were, but they were real, but from a different and more obscure smaller tribe and there weren't quite as many. So to make a short story long no one really knows why he lied, he could have gathered up enough evidence to get the status he wanted without an elaborate story to pad his Indian resume.