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Margaret Noodin, Professor
educatedindian:
This isn't how any university anywhere would normally handle an investigation, even one where they only care about covering themselves. You get someone in administration, or even from outside the university.
She wasn't "vindicated." Part of how her close friend covered for her was by asking the wrong question. Not "did she fake her identity" past tense, but "is she faking her identity" in the present. Myself and several others were in contact with her by a series of emails and with one us by phone. She did sincerely believe false stories about an ancestor. That was never the problem.
The problem was always that she continues (in the present) to present herself as Native and Ojibwe despite overwhelming evidence she's not, never was. That's not only unethical, it's delusional. I was one who defended her once she stepped down from one position. If she'd been honest from that point on, this whole thread would have been archived, and she truly would have been vindicated.
Then she decided again and again to still pretend to be Ojibwe. It was never about her "foundational beliefs and experiences." That a white way, an outsider's way, and a Newage way of thinking. She says the only thing she learned was not to talk about it. Then she still hasn't learned.
Advanced Smite:
There is a thread on NAFPS about one of Margaret's pretendian protegees, Nathon Breu. I don't believe that it has been referenced or linked here yet. The thread also contains discussion about Margaret. Nathon Breu is currently an associate professor at UW-Milwaukee.
Nathon Breu NAFPS Thread Link: http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=5671.0
UW-Milwaukee Faculty Directory Link: https://uwm.edu/american-indian-studies/people/breu-dr-nathon/
If you search "Margaret Noodin" on Facebook, you will find public posts from a (legit) Native American UWM student who was targeted by Margaret and Nathon. It's especially concerning in light of this: https://wcca.wicourts.gov/caseDetail.html?caseNo=2020CF001772&countyNo=40&index=0. UW-Milwaukee is putting Native American students at risk.
Advanced Smite:
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--- Quote from: Advanced Smite on August 24, 2024, 09:43:09 pm ---Mark Freeland, Margaret's hand picked successor (as she made clear in a post on this forum), has "cleared" her of faking Native American ancestry. Freeland was appointed by the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee to conduct a review.
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Also reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
https://eu.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2024/08/19/uw-milwaukee-hands-margaret-noodin-investigation-over-to-close-colleague/74742858007/
(The article is marked "For Subscribers" but I can read all of it.) It links to an earlier article, which I quoted in full here in the NAFPS forum on Nov. 04, 2023. (It's now "free for all readers" since Jan. 8, 2024.)
From the most recent article:
--- Quote ---To Noodin's critics, however, UWM's handling of the matter was problematic and highlights how universities are ill-equipped at addressing these complicated cases.
"All I can say is wow," said Sarah Gordon Altiman, a UWM graduate student who took several classes with Noodin; she is also an enrolled citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. "It is interesting that the university had her hand-picked successor be the so-called expert on Indigenous identity. (Noodin and Freeland) are personal friends and knew each other prior to his hiring — talk about a conflict of interest.
UWM declined to answer questions about how it conducted the investigation, saying they could not comment on personnel matters. Freeland said his relationship with Noodin "can only be described as professional and collegial. Any suggestion that my integrity is compromised is misplaced."
For her part, Noodin expressed a sense of vindication.
"After intensive investigation, UWM concluded that I had done nothing wrong morally, ethically or professionally," she wrote in an email to the Journal Sentinel. Still, [UWM Provost Andrew] Daire's instruction to consider how she represent herself made her "far less willing" to talk with anyone outside her family about their history.
"I continue to believe that identity is complex, personal and I cannot change any of the foundational beliefs and experiences that have made me who I am," she wrote."
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article has been archived and can be read without a subscription here: https://archive.ph/ZrDAC.
WINative:
Sharity Bassett is the wife of Mark Freland, Noodin's hand-picked successor, and is listed as both the Manager and Associate Director of the Electa Quinney Institute- where her husband is director. She is promoting this new book on Haudenosaunee Women's Lacrosse.
More on-going red flags at UW-Milwaukee's American Indians Studies Department with its long history of hiring Pretendians and their supporters.
Dr. Sharity Bassett is excited to begin her new roles at UWM as Visiting Assistant Professor of Women & Gender Studies and Manager of the American Indian Student Center. She has been involved in collaborative research with Haudenosaunee communities in New York state, Ontario, and Montreal since 2011. Prior to that, she worked with urban American Indian communities in Denver, CO, as an activist and ally. Her manuscript, Haudenosaunee Women Lacrosse Players: Making Meaning through Rematriation, is forthcoming with Michigan State University Press. Prior to coming to UWM, Dr. Bassett was an Assistant Professor of American Indian & Indigenous Studies at South Dakota State University, where she developed strong research ties with Indigenous partners at the Oglala Sioux, Rosebud, and Standing Rock, and Sisseton-Wahpeton nations. Dr. Bassett contributes sound Indigenous qualitative and archival research and methodologies, as well as a strong track record mentoring students.
https://uwm.edu/womens-gender-studies/people/bassett-sharity/
https://www.facebook.com/sharitylee.bassett
ojib22:
Yes, this is why Mark speaks so heavily on the importance of kinship, because his wife is not native but has made her career off the backs of natives. He uses kinship as his rationalization to have his non-native wife taking up space in the indigenous programs at UWM, those that could be filled by a Native person, and he uses kinship as his defense of Noodin. To be clear, I am not diminishing the importance of kinship in our communities, but the manner in which it has been manipulated with this group of people is repulsive.
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