I would like to know from those who know better on the list, whether this discussing a person like Churchill's genealogical ethnic composition as fractionalizing and measuring of race authenticity is some bizarre reference or borrowing from the discourse on the retroactive, institutional petitions claims by obscure tribes for land that result in casino construction as in CT. Applying it to an individual seems a bit weird from a "racial purity" lens appropriate to the right's tabloid attack on "character", and is misused to chill academic freedom, regardless of whether he "deserved" tenure in retrospect? It's not like he did what Bruce Franklin did at Stanford, or is it?
Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 8:50 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Ward Churchill > The American Indian Movement is on the right side of the spectrum these days? > > Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine > > ________________________________ > > From: PEN-L list on behalf of Louis Proyect > Sent: Sat 2/5/2005 3:42 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Ward Churchill > > > > >Suzan Shown Harjo - president of the Morning Star Institute, a Native > >American rights group in Washington, D.C. - has Census data showing > >Churchill as born to parents listed as white. She said he had not shown up > >on the rolls of the tribes he said he belonged to. > > These allegations surface from time to time. It might be possible that Ward > is not even 3/16th Cherokee. Who knows. I do know this. The people who > raise this question tend to be on the right side of the spectrum, most > especially the Bellecourt brothers who also accuse him of being a > government agent. Frankly, I could care less about his ancestry. What > matters is his dedication to indigenous struggles on which he has no peers. > > > > Louis Proyect > Marxism list: www.marxmail.org
