I knew one for about a year in high school and cluelessly attempted to befriend him. He was kind of odd and used to speak about how he had to move to where we were from the eastern coast a year or so prior because he got stabbed at some point, and I could never work out whether or not he was telling the truth. He also mentioned harrassing women asking if they wanted to see his abs and I think that might have embarrassed his family or something.
I never realised he was even native until he mentioned it in passing quite late (with a teacher who also declared himself Metis, despite looking even whiter than this guy), and we used to kind of laugh about colonialism and things a bit. I always just thought he was Franco-Italian since his mother was Italian and he had a French surname. His Franco-Metis (I think it was Metis, anyway) side was his dad with whom he didn't live, and who still lived in the east. His stepdad was some Balkan immigrant and a big telecom executive. Facially he was pale, but looking back you could kind of tell there was admixture.
He was
very cynical, sociopathic even, and used to give presentations in class about how he didn't care at all about the environment and just wanted to exploit the environment and get big profits. He was quite open about how he idolised corrupt business practices and big successful billionaires no matter how they behaved. He wanted to be rich, more than anything else. He was not a very moral or upstanding kind of person and didn't really buy into any kind of woke SJW politics that were upsurging at that point.
I decided to look him up not that long ago and it seems he has fully embraced the grift and works for some 'indigenous capital management' firm (whatever that means). He posts about how his 'indigenous experiences' have shaped who he is today, and all of that expected nonsense. He regurgitates whatever cynical woke corporate propaganda is pumped out by the people he works for.
Whatever the sphere of finance he is in consists of, it seems to be a massive grift for government funding. Just like Trump said:
'they don't look like Indians to me'. Of course, none of this is to say that those who are truly full-blooded natives behave much better all the time.
I hate this world and what it incentivises and the types of people it gives power to.
It sort of reminds me of how the white-identifying population of Puerto Rico dropped from 80% in 2000 (and 75% in 2010) to 17% in 2020: people are actively incentivised to 'escape' being white.