Pretendian /pɹɪˈten.diː.ən/ noun1 •(informal, disapproving) A person who falsely claims to have Native American or Indigenous Canadian ancestry.A Canadian woman who fraudulently claimed her daughters were Inuit has been sentenced to three years in jail, in what is believed to be the first ever custodial sentence for a “Pretendian”. — 2024 formsPretendians · pretendians