His shocking admission follows a 2020 documentary adaptation of his 2013 book being pulled from the Sundance Film Festival after the director's own Indigenous identity was called into question.

Celebrated author Thomas King has discovered that he has no Cherokee ancestry despite believing throughout his life that he was part Indigenous. The Canadian-American writer, who made the shocking ...

Thomas King, whose works centered around indigenous stories, said he feels as though he's "been ripped in half" after learning he is not part Cherokee.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has apologized to Cherokee Nation leaders over her attempt to use a DNA test to confirm her past claims to Native American ancestry, the tribe said. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has ...

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 ...

Residents of Coos, Curry and Douglas counties that believe they have Cherokee Indian heritage are wanted. Ancestry research is needed to verify heritage of each individual, which will come at no cost.

Ontario-based author Thomas King, whose books include 1993’s Green Grass, Running Water and 2012's The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, wrote in a Globe and ...

Researcher Angela Walton-Raji has been studying African-Native genealogy for over 20 years. The Comanche family pictured here is from the early 1900s. Courtesy Sam DeVenney Angela Walton-Raji has been ...

I had never heard the term “pretendian” until The Star’s story about three KU professors who have come under fire for claiming Native American ancestry. There was a time when I was a pretendian, even ...

University of Kansas associate professor Kent Blansett’s contributions to the Native American community aren’t in question. Blansett was hired in 2020 through KU’s Langston Hughes professorship, a ...

An award-winning a Canadian-American author whose career was tied to his apparent indigenous ancestry has recently learned that he has no Cherokee roots. Thomas King revealed the findings on Monday in ...