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That was because the indigenous expert they hired was neither indigenous nor an expert
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Holy cow, never knew this!
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Star Trek: Voyager's producers decided to make Chakotay's Native American background a key part of the character's personality. To get a better understanding of Native American heritage, the Voyager producers enlisted writer and journalist Jamake Highwater, a nationally recognized Native American authority who wrote books and produced TV series about his supposed heritage. Highwater was eventually exposed as a fraud; born Jackie Marks, he was of Eastern European descent and had no ties to the Cherokee people as he had long claimed.
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https://screenrant.com/star-trek-voy...n-controversy/