This article examines the emergence and persistence of the so-called “GuriNgai” identity movement as a case study in contemporary Indigenous identity fraud, settler conspirituality, and the public performance of cultural authority. The term “so-called” is used deliberately. The identity has been self-assigned by individuals whose claims to Aboriginal ancestry and cultural authority have been repeatedly … Continue reading The Vanishing Tribe Reimagined: The GuriNgai, Settler Desire, and the Performance of Indigeneity in Contemporary Australia