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Ward Churchill
educatedindian:
Churchill came to ASU at the invite of some white leftists for a conference, and that's who made up, almost the entire audience. The conference had a free concert the night before. I went and spotted Churchill. He saw me and took off the other way, then suddenly reversed himself and walked right by me without saying a word and refusing to look at me.
I can only guess I look like someone he had problems with in the past.
I've never heard any bad accounts of Deloria. He spent his entire life using his academic training in the service of NDN people, and the most dramatic evidence of that is the Bering Strait Theory is being widely challenged within academia as well as outside. In ten years I'd bet you won't hear the BS Theory mentioned in textbooks except as one possible theory that looks increasingly unlikely. One person whose also never disappointed when I've seen her speak is Devon Mihesuah.
A major reason I chose ASU for my grad school was that ASU always emphasized that any NDN history research be done solely for the benefit of NDN communities. And that includes works by white historians. A lot of the work that's come out of there has been community histories or works done to support NDN communities in legal struggles.
That's also why I enjoy where I teach now (except for the pay, which is typically very low all over Texas). St. Phillip's started out as a freedmen's college, and it still serves people who need it the most, mostly nontraditional students like I was.
Soma:
Lol
"Before we start the interview, Reporters, Do not ask Ward Churchill if he is a American Indian!"
http://youtu.be/9AtbGOBC1zU
Sparks:
Ward Churchill was asked about today in the thread about Jimmie Durham. I quote my full reply:
--- Quote from: Sparks on October 23, 2020, 03:49:47 pm ---
--- Quote from: Laurel on October 23, 2020, 10:40:32 am ---Didn't Ward Churchill write an essay or book chapter defending Jimmie Durham as "Nobody's Pet Poodle" and championing him for being a Cherokee "Indian artist" while not proving he has an ancestor on the rolls?
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He certainly did! Here are bibliographic references: Churchill, Ward: "Nobody’s Pet Poodle. Jimmie Durham: an artist for Native North America." Pages 483-499. [In the book] From a Native Son: Selected Essays on Indigenism 1985 (1995). With an introduction by Howard Zinn. Boston, Mass.: South End Press, ©1996. xix, 588 p.: ill., maps; 23 cm. — Also published here: "Nobody's Pet Poodle: Jimmie Durham, An Artist for Native North America," in American Indian Quarterly 20 (Winter 1996): 109-118. — My search indicates it was also printed a couple of other times and places (perhaps in differing versions).
About the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_a_Native_Son
https://www.worldcat.org/title/from-a-native-son-selected-essays-in-indigenism-1985-1995/oclc/34984190
The whole book is freely available for download here:
https://azinelibrary.org/other/Churchill_-_From_a_Native_Son_-_Selected_Essays_on_Indigenism_1985-1995.pdf
Please note: That essay/chapter is discussed in this 2011 PDF [Allegation B: Misrepresentation of the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990]:
https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/ConferenceReport.pdf [REPORT ON THE TERMINATION OF WARD CHURCHILL]
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Sparks:
--- Quote from: ska on May 11, 2008, 05:31:17 pm ---In a previous post on this thread, Kevin mentioned an article by Steve Russell in which Russell seems to suggest that Andrea Smith is not Cherokee.
Can anyone please fill me in on this? I have used her books in my classes, including Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide and The Color of Violence.
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--- Quote from: ska on May 13, 2008, 11:01:57 pm ---However, what I'm wondering about is this line from a recent op-ed piece by Steve Russell, which was posted on Indianz.com and reposted here by Kevin the other day. In his article, Russell says this regarding Smith: "My position is that even though not Cherokee, [my emphasis] she cannot be a fraud of Churchill's stature. "
This idea that Andrea Smith is NOT Cherokee is what is new to me. It was my understanding that she is a well-respected scholar and Cherokee woman.
I was wondering if anyone might have any information to confirm or deny Russell's assertion.
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A thread about Andrea Smith was started in 2012; still active:
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=3681.0 [Andrea Smith]
milehighsalute:
true story
ward churchill tried to hit on my aunt....she wasnt interested
he gave her a painting
she gave it to me
i never checked to see if he plagiarized this picture like many of his other paintings....maybe one day ill post it here no one has seen this one its an original not a print
i hope one day its worth alot as a NOVELTY painted by the guy that tried to fool (and in some cases did) the ndn community in denver lol
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