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RMN: Strong Evidence of Misconduct by Ward Churchill
Not a good few days are coming for "Professor" Ward Churchill. This is just one of five articles coming out in the RMN over the next few days. How this fella will survive the pressure to resign will be intersting to watch. The story linked here is incredible long and detailed.The Rocky Mountain News is closing in on the whole truth of this charletan. My advice for Churchill: Take a settlement. Now. Something is better than nothing. Edited for highlights At the core of the questions surrounding Churchill is this: Is he who he says he is? He has repeatedly said that his mother and grandmother passed on to him the often-told story that there was Indian blood in the family. He's believed it since he was 10, he has said. In speeches Churchill has given this year, he has introduced himself this way: "I bring you greetings from the Elders of the Keetoowah band of Cherokee, my mother's people." At times, he has suggested that he is 3/16ths Indian. That would be the equivalent of three of his 16 great-great grandparents having been 100 percent American Indian. But from all indications in an extensive genealogical study by the News, there is no evidence of a single Indian ancestor in Churchill's long family history in America. Churchill isn't the only member of his family who heard the same story. Many of his wide array of relatives have been searching for more than 100 years, through records that go back before the Revolutionary War, seeking the elusive link that would confirm the family legend of Indian parentage somewhere along the line. So far, they haven't found that link. Posted by: badanov 2005-06-04 |
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