I believe JT Leroy perpetrated was the more serious hoax compare to grey owl. What I mean by that is grey owl hiding of his true identity did not have a disappointing effect on his followers as much. When people found out about him being an Englishmen they did not care as much to what background he had mainly because of his key positive message of preservation of wilderness and wildlife. When he moved to Canada he became a new person and adapt to the person who he wanted to become so it was easier for him to fake his background because he was actually living and studying the life of an Indian naturalist. Grey Owl fine-tuned his identity before he had become a writer so when he eventually became an author he continued with the hoax which he
