Wes has been posting on the Ward Churchill matter (the University of Colorado Ethnic Studies professor who has been cheering on the terrorists) and now it seems we have a new twist. The American Indian Movement, which gained great fame for its activities in South Dakota in the 1970s, is now claiming that Churchill has been falsely claiming to be Native American. See Ed Morrisey for the details. Here's the statement from the American Indian Movement Grand Governing Council. Here's some background from Indian Country Today. See Instapundit for lots more. The whole thing reminds me of the Joseph Ellis affair a few years ago at Mount Holyoke. Ellis, the author of several books about the Founders, made up the fact that he was a high school football hero, a paratrooper in Vietnam, and led people South in the 1960s to protest segregation. It was all fabricated. I've been discussing this episode in class of late. The students are reading a recent book which covers the controversy by Peter Hoffer entitled Past Imperfect. Finally, here's a cartoon by Marty Two Bulls, who I think is from or lives in South Dakota because I've seen his cartoons before:
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