He was exposed by activist Hank Adams (Assiniboine) and reporter Jack Anderson in the mid- 1980s, after receiving more than $800,000 in grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from 1982 to 1983, based on his claims to be Native American.
He was exposed in his fabrications in 1984 by activist Hank Adams (Assiniboine) and reporter Jack Anderson in separate publications. He had already received more than $800,000 in grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from 1982 to 1983, based on his claims to be Native American.