Yes, Ward Churchill is a joke. A nasty one, at that.
Churchill is also a past national spokesperson for the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, has served as a delegate to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations (as a Justice/Rapporteur for the for the 1993 International People's Tribunal on the Rights of Indigenous Hawaiians), and as an advocate/prosecutor of the First Nations International Tribunal for the Chiefs of Ontario.
http://www.speakersandartists.org/People/WardChurchill.html
Engagements
Shoreline Community College, Seattle, WA Nov. 8, 2005