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It's open and shut. On the one hand, we have a birth certificate. On the other, we have Sainte-Marie's vague recollections and shifting narrative.
It fucking sucks. But it's pretty clear the reporting is accurate.
The problem is that lies are decades old and involve hundreds or thousands of people. And it also involves tens of thousands or millions of dollars.
So it will never be resolved.... so many people and so much money are invested in the lie that it will never come undone completely.
Also ... the issue is about native identity, which most of non indigenous North America don't really care about.
She'll get away with it all ..... mainly because the lie was so big and partly because not enough people really care.
And her "vague recollections" are deliberately constructed. I've read enough about false memories to have some sympathy for people who get events of even their own lives wrong. But when she got married, she officially represented her birth in a way that was not just counter to her public claims, but that validates a preexisting official record.
She wasn't confused or ignorant or delusional. She was clearly and deliberately deceitful, fully aware of the fraud she was committing.