I don’t want to dox myself, but I’ve been at my job for 5+ years. I guess either my boss or I fat fingered something while I was on boarding, cuz just now I was going over some paperwork and… As far as my job is concerned I’m Native American. I am very much white. Nobody ever brought it up.
I couldn’t find an easy way to change it and I’d rather not talk to HR if it’s not a big deal. So, forget about it? Call HR?
I am not an expert here, but essentially certain groups that the US gov was an asshole to in the past are eligible for some additional benefits as an ongoing way of saying “sorry we did a lil genocide on your people.”
Misrepresenting yourself as one of these groups in order to obtain additional benefits is likely a punishable offense.
The idea of government WASPs using the massive understatement of “lil genocide” is definitely funny.