Highlights of long article below:

Native American campaigners are raising questions about the Metropolitan Museum of Art's first-ever curator of Native American art — claiming she does not belong to a federally recognized tribe in the US, The Post has learned.

Patricia Marroquin Norby was hired with great fanfare in 2020, after what the museum said was “a long and competitive search,” as its “inaugural Associate Curator of Native American Art” in its American Wing.

For years, Marroquin Norby, 53, described herself — including in legal filings — as “Apache,” “Eastern Apache” and “Nde” as well as “Purepacha/Tarascan,” an indigenous group from the northwestern part of Michoacan, Mexico.

A year after her appointment, the New York Times described her as “the museum's first Native American curator and its first curator of Native American art” in a glowing profile.

And in 2022, Marroquin Norby told NPR, “First, I should say,” before speaking briefly in an apparent Native language, then saying in English, “I am Purepacha. I'm Purepacha descent.”

But after Native American researchers disputed her claims to any indigenous heritage, the Met told The Post that she was Purepacha, a Mexican indigenous group.

On Monday, Marroquin Norby said in a social media post that she has been targeted by a group of Native American women who are trying to “cancel” her.

The Purepacha are a Mexican native group, which is not one of the 574 Indian tribes recognized by the US Department of the Interior's Indian Affairs division.

“With all of the Native American scholars out there, we really wonder why the museum chose Patricia, who is definitely not Native American,” said Kathy Griffin, a member of the Cherokee Nation who compiled a genealogy of Marroquin Norby's family that she shared with The Post.

The review of Marroquin Norby's ancestry compiled by Griffin shows no evidence that any of her parents, grandparents or great-grandparents were enrolled members of a recognized tribe.

“They [pretendians] constantly shift from one tribe to another and claim to be indigenous from Mexico, which is a lot harder to prove,” Costantino told The Post Friday. “She [Marroquin Norby] has nothing to show that she has a connection to the Purepecha in Mexico.”

Marroquin Norby, who grew up in the Chicago area, once described herself as “an urban Indian” who began to proclaim her indigenous roots as an adult.

In 2010, Marroquin Norby was among a group in Osseo who sued the school district to try to force the removal of its “Chieftains” mascot, which depicted a Native American in a headdress.

In 2013, Marroquin Norby graduated from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities with a PhD in American studies for a thesis which analyzed how “European Americans have historically manipulated American Indian images to create a non-American Indian perspective.”

The trick is, the movement of whirly pieces at the end of the wire breaks their brains and causes all their cat math neurons to misfire when it springs back after releasing.

I love you guys.

https://tiktok.com/@charlottemorabito/video/7373858865386900779

hint: the jurnoid ends up telling everyone at the ER how to do their job

then, she video responds to a commenter explaining why she got BTFO'd after not having an emergency at the ER:

she's literally describing non-cardiac GERD chest pain and had anything cardiac ruled out

the jurnoid seethes in response to this comment and does a video response soying out because of this commenters audacity

highlights:

I am in a job where to describe your job frequently means to defend it so i have a lot of sympathy for doctors in that regard

lay people are asked to do their own medicine in this country, ex. "we need informed consent to do this procedure, so you need to understand exactly what you are signing up for"

if you just wanted to be a geek and do science all day, you should have become a researcher

Those doctors, they did not take my pain seriously. How dare you defend that! How dare you!!

Remember, these are the people writing the "facts" in our news

EDIT: a few more funnies:

(OP) JDBizzo decided to dm and tell me I'm in pain because I'm obese 😂 y'all it's almost satire

There is a distinct difference between acid reflux issues (or having a pill lodged in your throat which happened to me), And heart issues. Like you can tell the difference. It's so demoralizing when people try to tell you that you are wrong

(OP) Yeah they heard I went to the Cheesecake Factory the lunch the day before and they didn't want to think outside the box I guess

Verdict is in:

!dramatards call out thread!

Recently, at a workshop lunch, I was telling a British colleague that I’d not slept well prev night due to dreams where people were voting on EVMs but votes were not being counted. A Turkish colleague overheard & said he too used to have troubled dreams during Erdogan’s elections…

— Professor Nitasha Kaul, PhD (@NitashaKaul) May 27, 2024

I hope you never can

Republicans released documents today they claim show Hunter Biden lied to Congress, including about not helping anyone get a US visa.

Republicans cited an email in which a biz associate said Hunter would help with a visa.

But! It was a Mexican visa. https://t.co/RKtYB9RwA4

— Arthur Delaney 🇺🇸 (@ArthurDelaneyHP) May 23, 2024

I'm really proud of this one. You can view the rest of the shoot here: https://www.bradgillette.net/summerwood