Corinne Perera aka Corrine Grey Cloud

[milehighsalute]

a little old, a couple of years ago

doesnt seem like she was posing as someone spiritual so thats probably how we missed her

more like she was posing as an activist and had the audacity to speak on behalf of ndnz

we been down this road before too

https://indianz.com/News/2022/01/24/self-proclaimed-auntie-admits-being-wrong-about-tribal-affiliations/

[milehighsalute]

found this gem

https://indianz.substack.com/p/auntie-goes-missing

also found this, which is a good interview

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/04/land-back-tribal-nations-sovereignty-treaties-white-supremacy/

its one of those cases where what this woman says is not crazy.....not at all

its who she claims to be that is crazy

[educatedindian]

Moved thread. It might be an old story but still needs to be looked at. Esp since she made money off this. Need to know where the money went, how much, and if she will ever give it back. Her Patreon is still up.
https://www.patreon.com/misscorinne86
And still making money.
https://graphtreon.com/creator/misscorinne86

She also claimed to have a Native owned business. There's also how racists will use her lie to discredit the issues she claimed to care about. Several university sites still have her posts and interviews up.

Many sharing her names makes research harder. Her claim of a Lakota or Mohawk grandfather actually seems to be an Indonesian. I had an Indonesian student who looked exactly like Thomas Builds the Fire in Smoke Signals. Exactly, like his twin except for short hair.

[Sandy S]

Recently a “Pretendian” named Corrine Grey Cloud has admitted to having no ancestry to our Nations of Turtle Island as a result from concerned Women in our Communities who pushed to hold her accountable. Grey Cloud as it is reported comes from a Law Enforcement Family managed to fool “Indian Country” for 8 years. She benefited financially from her fabricated persona where she is a social media influencer recognized by Forbes magazine that allowed her to establish a huge Indigneous Following. When our own Women attempted to hold her accountable they were accused of being toxic which has caused division in our community

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https://anishinaabek.wordpress.com/2022/02/03/constitutional-distress-reflections-on-convoys-to-ottawa/

The Forbes article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestheculture/2021/11/26/a-day-of-dinner-and-decolonization-9-indigenous-activists-educators-and-healers-to-follow/

Archive of Rice Consulting LLC website https://web.archive.org/web/20220517104225/https://www.corinnericeconsulting.com/

Archive of Huffpost essay https://web.archive.org/web/20190405074040/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/native-american-thanksgiving_n_5bf594b5e4b03b230f9df6ad

From her 2021 wedding story:

Corinne is from the San Francisco bay area in California and is of Mohawk and Lakota descent and daughter to Heidi and Steve Switzer and John Perera. Greg is from the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe and son to Kimberly Dempsey and the late Duane Grey Cloud.

https://www.lakotatimes.com/articles/rosebud-wedding-village-backdrop-realistic/

CORINNE RICE, Lakota/Mohawk — was born in 1986 in Sunnyvale California, to an Oglala Lakota and Kahnawa:ke Mohawk mother and Pacific Islander and Dutch father.

https://medium.com/@crystal.martinez.419/a-seventh-generation-indigenous-woman-reclaims-her-culture-to-make-a-change-in-her-community-7b84cb1c4ea4

[Sandy S]

It looks like she deleted the original of her Facebook "apology" post, fortunately it is captured here: https://indianz.com/News/2022/01/24/self-proclaimed-auntie-admits-being-wrong-about-tribal-affiliations/

The post includes:

When we began the journey of assisting one of my grandfathers in piecing family history together after discovering that online paper trails were filled with errors and handwriting was difficult to read, mistakes were made.

This doesn't make any sense. Her parents married in 1985, not hundreds of years ago. I believe both her parents are still alive. The relevant grandfather appears to still be alive.

They have access to birth, marriage, divorce, death, census, social, land, military, employment etc. records. Since we are talking about recent generations, there won't be much handwriting to puzzle over. Most everything will be indexed and transcribed.

I should have been more open and honest about not being enrolled and being a descendant.

So she is still claiming heritage.

[Sandy S]

Archived https://web.archive.org/web/20220124065258/https://www.powwows.com/native-american-activism-conference-at-humboldt-state-university-2015/#:~:text=Search-,Native%20American%20Activism%20Conference%20at%20Humboldt%20State%20University%20(2015),-Posted%20By%20PowWow

This includes her brother Andrew Perera, some photos included.

Andrew Perera a Lakota and head of Security, applies traditional Lakota “Akicita” face paint made from the ashes of a Shoshone Ghost Dance fire.

She’s teamed up with her brother Andrew Perera, who holds a masters of jurisprudence in Indian Law.

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/04/land-back-tribal-nations-sovereignty-treaties-white-supremacy/

“We are representing students, community members, faculty, staff and the 11 tribes in this area,” said Perera, who is Lakota

2018 https://ictnews.org/archive/students-at-humboldt-protest-treatment-of-indigenous-population

Andrew Perera, M.J.I.L. - no mention of Lakota in this bio.
https://www.sjsu.edu/justicestudies/about-us/directory/perera-andrew.php

[Sandy S]

Working with the info here https://indianz.com/News/2022/01/24/self-proclaimed-auntie-admits-being-wrong-about-tribal-affiliations/ led me to then look over the crowd sourced genealogy and actual records for the Beulah Celeste Rice families, on familysearch.org.

From what I can see, everyone is white. This particular Rice family is said to go back 10 generations or so to England.

Corinne also has German heritage. For some reason she has left that off her claimed heritage list.

Beulah Celeste Rice https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42625779/beulah_celeste-reed She married several times. She and Walter Tubbs are Corinne's ancestors.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42915139/walter_elmer-tubbs

I think Corinne made up her story then has tried to insert it into her actual lineage. Maybe this is a combo of wannabe, vague family story, and lying.

Surely her and her brother have the research skills necessary to evaluate records properly, or hire a pro to do so.

[Sandy S]

In 2020, she launched Rice Consulting LLC, the only DEI consulting firm owned by a Native American woman which focuses on Native American diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

(This quote is from a bio, I uploaded the clip here.)

This claim is egregious b.s.

A quick Google search pulls up several such consulting firms. There are multiple consulting firms that do this work owned by women from Nez Perce, Cowlitz, Muckleshoot, Coeur D’Alene and other tribes. I see one founded in 2002, another in 1990. And I've only been looking for a few minutes.

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Corinne Rice (Lakota) and the Executive Director for the BUFFALO Project, which stands for Brothers United For Feeling And Leading Openness

https://escholarship.org/content/qt3bv970nd/qt3bv970nd.pdf

Raised $4,288 with GoFundMe for BUFFALO Project: www.gofundme.com/f/the-buffalo-project This California nonprofit is not in good standing, likely because they did not keep up with paperwork. Her step father is listed as an agent. Corinne's brother Andrew Perera lists this on a resume: "2019 - 2021 Vice President and Instructor @ The Buffalo Project" https://rocketreach.co/andrew-perera-email_140696394

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I have been asked before, both in person and in interview about how I navigate surrogacy and my traditional culture as an Oglala Lakota woman. I am Khanawake Mohawk and Oglala Lakota but I will be speaking today on sacred femininity and surrogacy as a straight Cis-gender Lakota woman. We also believe in the two spirit community, which I have carried a baby for two gay men as well, but today I will be speaking on the subject of surrogacy and infertility.

https://iamjustthemessenger.blogspot.com/

I am proud to be all of my pieces, and most recently in life I honor the part of me who is Lakota. I spent the past few years learning, observing, and immersing myself in my culture. I had a desire, and HAVE a desire to grow that part of who I am. I owe it to my ancestors who desperately fought for our cultural survival, to own that part of me. To live as traditionally as I am able.

https://theoestreichs.blogspot.com/2015/10/honoring-pieces-of-me.html

Oestreich wore a medicine bag around her neck and rawhide earrings with Dakota floral painted onto them. “The decision to incorporate pieces of my culture in my daily wear is an act of resistance because I'm saying 'I don't care,’” she said. “You're going to know who I am. You're going to know where I come from. And I'm going to be brave and wear it and represent who I am.”

Panelists discuss issue of missing and murdered indigenous women
https://www.nebraskanewsservice.net/news/diversity/panelists-discuss-issue-of-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women/article_f490fa35-4364-5bfb-a532-40dc760d4a1c.html

[Sandy S]

Her biological paternal side of family is Indonesian and Dutch.

My opa’s name is Aleysworth Dudley Perera. He was born on January 1, 1930 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=372e26a4ff77bd8dbaf74127f&id=a1f580ee99&e=%5BUNIQID%5D#War%20and%20Military%20News

I can see some records that support this. This is not the side of the family that she claims Native American heritage for.

She claims Lakota and Mohawk on her maternal side. Her claims have been slippery and confusing. They seem to focus on her ancestor Beulah Celestia Rice, who married Walter Elmer Tubbs.

Extensive work and records are available on quite a few generations back from Beulah Celestia Rice. In some cases at least 10 generations back. Families have English and some German heritage.

I'm not doing a professional level genealogical work up of those 10 plus generations. She can pay someone for that service. But it doesn't matter ultimately. She has been performing as her version of Lakota and Mohawk. She has benefited. She has caused dissension in communities, taken up space, misrepresented, and now refuses to drop the act and make true amends.

As a non-Native woman myself, I would like her to 'fess up.

[Sandy S]

birth name Corinne Perera
married name Corrine Oestreich
married name Corrine Grey Sky
at various times she has included the surname Rice

She has not stopped. Her Instagram hasn't been cleared. Some of her past false identification has been removed from online but definitely not all.

On Insta there are still posed photos of her wielding guns and proclaiming herself a Native "auntie". She has been performing Native for awhile and continues on, with some finessing.
 
I believe she needs to stop being an Influencer completely.

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Corinne rice grey cloud.
White/Indonesian The OG of the pretendian tribe shifters. (Along with her brother) tribe shifted from Hawaiian to Blackfeet and Lakota to Cherokee to Seneca to crow to finally settling into Lakota (pine ridge) and Mohawk (kahnawake) (after of course changing her last name to rice) with this new found identity she’s led MMIWG2S campaigns, she with no residential school family did a whole residential school campaign, she’s been featured in articles, talking about how endangered her (fake native) life is because of MMIWG2S. She’s scammed money for various thing. Including in-vitro which she used to conceive her half Lakota baby. Married her a Lakota and now that she’s been exposed as a pretendian still lives her life as though she hasn’t been lying and still is

https://www.instagram.com/skinsuiting/reel/CmPV6_pjiNf/

Teresa Lazore
Actual enrolled rezzy Mohawk with lived Rez experience running this account exposing pretendians

[educatedindian]

Theft and fraud, moved to Frauds. If she wanted to not be considered one she'd have to account for the funds she took under false pretenses, change the nature of that consulting firm, and quit abusing GoFundMe. One thing we should do is contact GoFundMe and urge them to close her account and have that money refunded.

[Sandy S]

Additions to the earlier Andrew Perera post here http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=5718.msg49673#msg49673

Andrew Perera is Corinne's brother. I see talk online of Corinne and Andrew being an example of pretendian siblings. He uses the name Andrew Redhawk. They got media write ups, did educational events, operated The Buffalo Project, LLC together.

NARS was launched in March 2021 by three Native American Legal Experts and Founding Partners, Sarah Caligiuri, Andrew Redhawk, and Megan Siaosi.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/native-americans-for-restorative-stewardship/about/

He is one of the founders of Native Americans for Restorative Stewardship, LLC in Davenport, Washington. He uses his legal name Andrew Perera in the corporation docs. The corporation was registered 02/10/2021 and they are in delinquent status because they aren't keeping up with annual paperwork.

Native Americans for Restorative Stewardship is based in a triad partnership that began in Humboldt State University within the Native American Studies department in 2013.

He identifies now as a Lakota descendant Very recently the "Lakota descendant" part has been erased from website but everything else has not.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220808160750/https://www.narsconsultants.com/our-team

We are a Native American owned and operated consulting firm rooted in service to Indian Country and those who seek partnerships in order to support the visibility of Indigenous Peoples everywhere.

https://www.narsconsultants.com/nars-pricing
Full info on services offered: https://www.narsconsultants.com/services
A short 2023 video paging through their partnership portfolio lists Andrew as "Lakota descendant".
https://www.facebook.com/NARSConsultants/videos/869948917855329

Andrew Perera dedicated his life to fighting for equality. As the new Director for Student Equity, Leadership, and Community at @wsuspokane he plans to channel his determination to serve the student population. Accepting the position in October, Perera oversees three programs: the Office of Student Diversity and International Student Life, the Office of Student Leadership, and the Office of Community Programs.

https://www.instagram.com/priorityspokane/p/CmlCHe6uFZ8/ andrew.perera@wsu.edu

I don't see any public acknowledgement by him, apology, explanation, any amends.

Corinne in her "apology" claimed "mistakes were made" because genealogical research was confusing, as if she wasn't up to the task. Yet she has elsewhere specifically boasted about her research skills, including applied to her research on what surrogacy company to work with. Andrew Perera quite obviously has education and research skills.

Family members on social media, artist website, etc. do not make any Native American claims.

[Sandy S]

This is definitely ongoing fraud. They have not closed up shop.

If I didn't know better I would believe the siblings Andrew Perera/Redhawk and Corinne Perrera/Oestreich/ Rice/Grey Sky are Lakota and Mohawk.

At least 10 years of their claims can be found online. Some of it they could remove themselves and have not done so. They haven't made proactive statements, made amends, returned funds.

The Buffalo Project (Brother United For Feeling And Leading Openness)

BUFFALO Project was founded in 2018, and is a new way to combat Human Trafficking and violence against women. Our mission is to encourage healthy expressions of emotion in men, and create lasting tools to build meaningful relationships in the world around them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaPHOZHELyo - I watched the video and used transcript here.

In this promo Corinne positions herself as Native. She is rather grandiose and special by claiming she has a "new way" to do this work. She says the work includes "learning about the shadow self" to assist those who "embody unhealthy aspects of masculinity". That is Jungian and Robert Bly b.s.

So she performs as a fake Lakota/Mohawk woman who will heal white non-Native predators from their predating ways by "rewiring their thinking" and therefore "diminish a need for human trafficking".

[Sparks]

It looks like she deleted the original of her Facebook "apology" post …

https://www.facebook.com/corinne.oestreich/  [Corinne Grey Cloud]

Plenty of public posts there. Cannot find anything about all the stuff mentioned in this thread, but I haven't searched or scrolled down so much. Seems she is delivering mail where she lives:

Corinne Grey Cloud — January 10 [2025]
Attention plow drivers and folks in town etc with mailboxes. Please be sure I can access your box from my car. That I can get close enough to your box. With the cold weather I am not making exceptions and exiting my vehicle to deliver mail. It’s too dangerous with slick roads and cold temperatures.
If your box is full, inaccessible, dogs out and not on a leash, falling off its post, your mail will be brought back to the post office and held until your box has been fixed or animals have been tied up. Thanks

Also of some interest; photos from her wedding (2021):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/socialdistancepowwow/posts/1235267396884262/