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The Education of Little Tree is a memoir-style novel written by Asa Earl Carter under the pseudonym Forrest Carter..
The Messed Up True Story Behind Klansman Asa Earl Carter's Giant Hoax
ByMarina Manoukian
Asa Earl Carter was a white American man who spent the entirety of his life as a racist person, repeatedly going on tirades against Black people and Jewish people.
The Education of Little Tree was first published in the mids as an autobiography by Forest Carter.
But for the second half of his life, he also adopted an identity that involved pretending he was half-Cherokee and writing romanticized stories about his "heritage."
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Calling himself "Forrest Carter," one of his books, The Education of Little Tree, became incredibly popular after Carter's death.
And despite the fact that Carter was remarkably bad at keeping up his deception, his faux identity wasn't accepted as a hoax until the 1990s.
Asa Earl Carter is one of many in the United States who has pretended to have Native ancestry.
Miguel Douglas writes that "many Americans who wish to be Native American only do so due to the benefits they believe Native Americans receive [... and] for many claiming Native ancest