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QuoteThe statement from ARTSWA Washington State Arts Commission, referring to the U.S. Department of the Interior's Indian Arts and Crafts Board should be enough to convince Wikipedia?

Sparks, I agree, ideally that statement would be enough. I myself am not going to be able to figure out again how to interact with Wikipedia.
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For us here, I believe the ARTSWA Washington State Arts Commission statement caps this case. Gail Tremblay is a known fraud.

Tremblay taught not only students but also student teachers. She treated student teachers horribly, bullied them into doing inappropriate labor for her.

I think it is fair to say that The Evergreen State College totally enabled her. I'm a grad, and I'm really disappointed in the institution now.

QuoteI think it is fair to say that The Evergreen State College totally enabled her. I'm a grad, and I'm really disappointed in the institution now.

I need to update this. One person associated with TESC has made clear statements about the art fraud that Gail Tremblay perpetuated. I don't have any public urls for this.

As far as I know, the TESC admin as a whole has not made any public statements. All they have done is disappear almost all mention of her from their website.

QuoteFor those who did encounter her directly, you can probably agree with criticisms and observations that she was abrasive, borderline abusive, and received a seemingly endless amount of grace from Evergreen administration due to her identity as a Native woman. She often excused her behavior by saying she was just a "strong Native woman" and blamed others/implied others were racist for not knowing how to accept or deal with her behavior.

There are many, many stories about her berating her students and screaming at her teaching assistants. My first day at Evergreen, I watched her berate two students assisting her, screaming at them, in front of hundreds of onlookers. Nobody did anything. It was accepted behavior from her.

It's hard to put into words just how abusive she could be.

https://www.reddit.com/r/evergreen/comments/1ob30uz/gale_tremblay_not_actually_native/?sort=new

Gail Tremblay abused her students. She also abused the young low income people she hired to help her, she yelled at them and paid them under the table.

Discussions about her continue to bubble up online. I know former students that were abused. Everyone's stories are similar.