Proof that "Owl Goingback" is not Cherokee, a TAAF page

03/03/2024

Ancestry chart.

09/04/2023

Great podcast about TAAF that slams ol' "Owl" too, lol.

Heather Rae Bybee was considered to be one of Hollywood’s most prominent Native American directors. She described her mother as Cherokee, sported a tattoo of a Cherokee goddess, told the stories of Native characters in her films. The film industry was left in shock earlier this year when Bybee was...

06/23/2023

GENEALOGY REPORT FOR "OWL GOINGBACK" James R. Heidbrink
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06/16/2023

PRESS RELEASE: 6-15-23

CASE: James Russell Heidbrink aka “Owl Goingback”

Sovereign Nations / identity falsely claimed: Cherokee/Choctaw

Determination: FRAUD

James Russell Heidbrink, aka “Owl Goingback”, is a horror fiction author who claims to be “half Cherokee and half Choctaw”, which would make him a full-blooded American Indian. That is a very bold and obvious
lie. He is an ethnic fraud because James Russell Heidbrink is a man of European ancestry who possesses zero American Indian ancestry from any tribe whatsoever, including Cherokee or Choctaw.

He claims his mother, “Quiet Starr”, whose actual name was Allene Francis Hahn, was Cherokee and Choctaw. She was not. And we have letters on public display from all of the federally recognized Cherokee and Choctaw tribal enrollment offices that clearly say he is neither, nor was his mother, nor was his ancestor, David Earnest Penly, nor anyone else in his family.

On his father’s side, only 3 generations back, his family are immigrants from Germany and England.

He is the recipient of many awards recognizing him as a “Native American” author writing about “Native American” themes. This is also literary fraud because Mr. Heidbrink will never possess a "Native American” perspective on anything. What he knows about Native American people he attained by reading about us and being a tourist amongst us.

Yet he “travels throughout the United States lecturing about the customs and folklore of the American Indians”. In doing so, he usurps the voices of actual American Indian people who could be authentically
speaking on lived American Indian experiences and culture. He is taking up space that could be occupied by legitimately American Indian people. He is one pretendian fraud among many who are collectively
erasing us by replacing us. And now he’s being honored at StokerCon, the American Horror Writer’s annual convention in Pennsylvania. They are being informed regarding Mr. Heidbrink’s fraud.

His Wikipedia entry admits that “Owl Goingback” is his pen name, but we have screenshots of Mr.
Heidbrink implying that it is his birth name, by showing his ID on Facebook, having legally changed his name to “Owl Goingback”, a prestigious Cherokee family name which he has stolen to further his profitable fraud. We believe he did this to make himself appear to be Cherokee, which is a classic pretendian tactic.

Mr. Heidbrink owes the public and the Cherokee and Choctaw people an apology. He should legally change his name back to the name his non-American Indian parents gave him, and cease and desist with his cosplay in red face.

To his readers: Please let Mr. Heidbrink know you do not support this type of harmful fraud. To his publishers and supporters: Please do not harbor and enable pretendians like Mr.
Heidbrink. Pretendian fraud is the last nail in the coffin of our genocide.

See the hard evidence on our website:

06/16/2023

FRAUD: "OWL GOINGBACK", aka JAMES RUSSELL HEIDBRINK

Russell Heidbrink, aka “Owl Goingback”, is a horror fiction author who claims to be “half Cherokee and  half Choctaw”, which would make him a full-blooded American Indian. That is a very bold and obvious lie. He is an ethnic fraud because Russell Heidbrink is a man of European ancestry who ...

05/02/2023

Visit our website, where the evidence against pretendian frauds is permanently housed.

We expose ethnic frauds pretending to be American Indian people or "tribes" when they are not. We are researchers. We gather facts. We are the whistle-blowers. American Indian Native American advocacy

04/27/2023

JAMES R. HEIDBRINK FAMILY TREE OUTLINE
-His ancestors never lived where the Cherokee or Choctaw traditionally lived.
-Census reports tell a story heavily influenced by recent European immigration to the U.S. and race is always, consistently, "W", generation after generation
- Ample documentation to establish his familial lines, connecting each generation to the next
-The Cherokee and Choctaw Tribes do not recognize him or his ancestors at all

04/24/2023

We've been "goingback" in time researching. The documents have spoken:
NOT Cherokee
NOT Choctaw
view documents below

04/22/2023

Who is TAAF?

04/11/2023

Letters from ALL the tribes "Owl" has claimed to be descended from, saying that he does not descend from any of them....

04/11/2023

"Owl Goingback", whose real name is James Russell Heidbrink, falsely claims to be HALF Choctaw and Cherokee. That's a mighty high blood quantum these days and a very bold claim. He changed his name legally (to appear Indian, it would seem). He stole the very prestigious Cherokee name "Goingback" in the process.

We have been trying to reach James to ask him what he is basing this claim upon, exactly, because we have done his genealogy, and we can find ZERO evidence that there is ANY American Indian ancestry in his family. Anywhere.

We have evidence that James is aware of this and has chosen to avoid us rather than have a conversation about this and either prove us wrong or acknowledge the truth, apologize, and go forward as an ally rather than a pretendian fraud.

Our invitation to make this right remains.

We will be posting his genealogy here, hard evidence, for all to see. We will be doing educating regarding what it all means and why Mr. Heidbrand's fraud is harmful to actual NDN people in many ways.

Please do not enable frauds who pretend to be American Indians - but without all the pesky intergenerational trauma, racism, oppression and genocide. Hold them accountable. This is about simple truth, honesty, transparency and tribal sovereignty.

This man has NO American Indian perspective on anything. He's just doing cosplay. Dressing in redface at powwows. It's not ok.