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educatedindian:
It's from her page at UT Austin.
https://minio.la.utexas.edu/colaweb-prod/profile/custom_pages/0/1591/response_to_taaf_c759fd45-99a2-4586-b679-d4a8e67d0dd7.pdf
Forgot to include that in the original post. I added it.

Sparks:

--- Quote from: Sparks on February 14, 2025, 03:10:16 am ---See also: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/anthropology/faculty/sturmcd
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There is now an addendum with two links there. Unfortunately, I didn’t notice that when I started this topic two days ago:


--- Quote ---My Initial Response to TAAF:
A week ago, I received a letter of accusation from the TAAF. I responded on the morning of February 6th with the letter linked below. I am still reviewing the allegations they have publicly made against me and will respond in full once I have an opportunity to do so. In the meantime, I wish to note that there are several errors, including in their genealogical research of my paternal grandmother’s line.

TAAF Letter to Circe Sturm 2-4-25.docx
Response to TAAF 2025-02-05.pdf

-Circe Sturm, February 14, 2025
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Please note that educatedindian has quoted from that PDF (and posted the link to it) in his recent posts.

Sparks:

--- Quote from: Sparks on February 14, 2025, 03:10:16 am ---https://tribalallianceagainstfrauds.org/circe-dawn-sturm
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File not found. URL has been changed to: https://tribalallianceagainstfrauds.org/circe-dawn-sturm-1
— Everything looks exactly like the previous URL. Maybe there are small changes, maybe not?


--- Quote from: Sparks on February 16, 2025, 10:43:32 pm ---
--- Quote from: Sparks on February 14, 2025, 03:10:16 am ---See also: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/anthropology/faculty/sturmcd
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There is now an addendum with two links there. Unfortunately, I didn’t notice that when I started this topic two days ago:


--- Quote ---My Initial Response to TAAF:
A week ago, I received a letter of accusation from the TAAF. I responded on the morning of February 6th with the letter linked below. I am still reviewing the allegations they have publicly made against me and will respond in full once I have an opportunity to do so. In the meantime, I wish to note that there are several errors, including in their genealogical research of my paternal grandmother’s line.

TAAF Letter to Circe Sturm 2-4-25.docx
Response to TAAF 2025-02-05.pdf

-Circe Sturm, February 14, 2025
--- End quote ---

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The addendum with two links isn't there anymore. The PDF mentioned has been quoted by educatedindian, and is still here:

https://minio.la.utexas.edu/colaweb-prod/profile/custom_pages/0/1591/response_to_taaf_c759fd45-99a2-4586-b679-d4a8e67d0dd7.pdf

This is his response to that PDF (my bolding):


--- Quote from: educatedindian on February 14, 2025, 09:56:34 pm ---Most of the rest of her letter is why she believed herself a descendant and her efforts to prove it, family stories, researchers
etc. So the question then becomes TAAF's research showing she likely is not. That may be important to TAAF. It's
never been important to NAFPS to go after someone who believed themselves to have ancestry when they didn't profit from it or abuse people in any way.
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Now, looking at her Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circe_Sturm), it discusses her background with the same sources that have been used here by NAFPS, but it offers no conclusion to the question:


--- Quote ---Background
Circe Dawn Sturm was born in Houston, Texas. She identifies her father as being of Mississippi Choctaw descent and her mother as being Italian American.[4] However, the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds wrote that they, in Sturm's words, "can find no evidence of my having Choctaw or Cherokee ancestry..."[5] In Blood Politics, Sturm wrote, "I had always known that my paternal grandmother was Mississippi Choctaw on her mother's side and very distantly Cherokee on her father's side."[6] In 2025, she wrote that by 2011, "I had dropped the Cherokee descent claim entirely..."[5] She wrote that her aunt and great-aunt told her that "Lizzie Wesley, my great-great grandmother, was the daughter of a full blood Mississippi Choctaw women" but neither aunt knew her name.[5] Her great-grandmother was born in Ellisville, Mississippi.[5] Sturm hired three genealogists to help her find Choctaw roots, but she writes, "None of them were able to find early records for Lizzie..."[5] Professor Kim Tallbear, an expert in Indigenous identity fraud, called the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds' investigations "courageous" and agreed with their conclusion that Sturm has no American Indian ancestry.[7][8]
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As far as I can see the attacks on Circe Sturm have had no consequences for her career in academia. Still, the TAAF Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100067952795892) persists in their attacks, and on July 17 they once again posted Kim Tallbear's statement and demanded:

"Come on, University of Texas!  FIRE THESE FRAUDS!  Especially Circe Sturm and John Lowe!"

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0aYXKgmkSnNw3NGwXRsfdQ45GRcpG5d1UdQQFkLSznL56TQ5zaUDn1vLTWKNgXDsul&id=100067952795892

See also: https://www.facebook.com/100067952795892/posts/httpsenmwikipediaorgwikicirce_sturm/1072584588349958/

Sparks:

--- Quote from: Sparks on July 22, 2025, 06:44:44 pm ---… the TAAF Facebook page … on July 17 … demanded:

"Come on, University of Texas!  FIRE THESE FRAUDS!  Especially Circe Sturm and John Lowe!"

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0aYXKgmkSnNw3NGwXRsfdQ45GRcpG5d1UdQQFkLSznL56TQ5zaUDn1vLTWKNgXDsul&id=100067952795892
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There is now a new topic: http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=5727.0 [John Lowe, Professor UT Austin]

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