Reply #182: Here is a link

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-churchill9mar09,1,3617513.story?coll=la-headlines-nation&ctrack=2&cset=true

...(example of academic dishonesty)...

Three professors have said that Churchill reinvented history to suit his politics. In one case, he wrote that the U.S. Army deliberately infected Mandan Indians with smallpox-laden blankets in what is now North Dakota. His source for the story was UCLA professor Russell Thornton, whose own account of the incident is completely different and makes no mention of the Army.

...(Native Americans denying he is one of them)...

Long before Churchill became nationally known, many Native American groups — including the American Indian Movement — were denouncing him as an impostor. Churchill's claims to be Creek, then Keetoowah Cherokee, have been denied by the tribes. He has often called American Indians racist for their tribal membership rules.

"We have told he is not an Indian and he should not be out there indicting Indian people," said Carol Standing Elk, who heads AIM of Northern California. "How did he get into the university? How did he head a department with only a master's degree?"

...(the lying and cheating to get the job)...

Churchill applied to the University of Colorado in 1978 and was hired to run a tutoring program for minority students. He checked Native American on his application and federal affirmative action forms. In 1991, he got a temporary job teaching American Indian studies, beating out several Native American applicants.

...(He claimed to have gotten a job offer from CA and thus forced his tenure. No such job offer ever existed)...

But California State University officials said they never offered him a job.

"We have records from that time, and we cannot find a hiring offer to Ward Churchill," John Chandler, spokesman for Cal State Northridge, said last week.

...he was never a viable candidate. He didn't have a Ph.D. and no scholarly writings that would meet any criteria of a serious college."