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June 09, 2005
Churchill's Ancestors
Remember Ward Churchill, the professor who claims to be part Native American and who used his ethnicity to overcome a lack of serious scholastic ability? It turns out that he is almost for sure not a Native American according to extensive genealogical research performed by rocky mountain news. Normally I would think that doing this sort of research would be distasteful, but in Churchill's case it seems very appropriate because he has based his entire career on his supposed ethnicity. Churchill is not the only white person to claim that they are part Native American when they have no proof of this ancestry and the article linked to above has other similar stories about white guys claiming they were Native Americans.
Posted by Pete at June 9, 2005 07:56 PM
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