Shep Swiftwater

Wyatt Olson AKA Shep Swiftwter is a man who came to Rutherford Falls pretending to be Native to get a job as the new curator.
==History==
Shep came into the cultural center one evening and handed Reagan his resume. He couldn't figure out the online application and wanted to be the new curator. Impressed with his previous museum experience and his claim that things went south there because he insisted that indigenous exhibits should be designed by indigenous people, plus him having read her thesis, she hired him on the spot.
Shep also easily impressed Wayne and Sally, who had come to the cultural center. Sally even volunteered to have her aunt, a famous potter, come to do a demonstration, which she'd refused to do for Reagan. Wayne and Sally had invited Shep to dinner and Shep also invited Reagan, though Sally and Wayne advised him to watch the company he kept.
At the dinner, Shep enchanted the three with tales of his travels and run-ins with celebrities. Wayne asked Shep where he was and Shep said he identified as a son of Turtle Island. Wayne and Sally liked that, but Reagan wanted to know more specifically where he was from. Shep said their people are nomads. She asked what tribe he's from. He claimed heritage of the Algonquin, Inuit, Mapuche, and the Midwestern band of Cherokee. Sally said those are really far away from each other and Wayne had never heard of the Midwestern band of Cherokee. Mostly, Shep said, he's a descendant of the Potawatomi, which tipped the other three off that Shep was faking Indian ancestry.
Reagan and Wayne called Shep to the cultural center to question him, but he dodged all their questions and warned them they didn't want to make an enemy of him.
Desperate, Reagan called Terry over to question him. They stared each other down for a while before Terry declared that Shep wasn't Native and questioned how the faking started. He explained why what he was doing was so awful and got him to admit that he's actually Swedish and from Connecticut. Terry had him take off his medallion and leave.
Reagan later learned that he'd written a book about his adventures in pretending to be Native and his real name was Wyatt Olson.
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