Posted on 10/02/2015 5:39:59 PM PDT by billorites
When Dartmouth College named Susan Taffe Reed as the new director of its Native American Program in September, it said she would use her role as president of the Eastern Delaware Nations to help Indian students adjust to life at the Ivy League school.
But since Ms. Reed’s hiring, tribal officials and Dartmouth alumni have accused her of misrepresenting herself as an American Indian and the school of failing to adequately vet her background as a leader of a nonprofit group that acknowledges it isn’t an actual tribe.
Ms. Reed says she is of Native heritage, though in response to queries, she didn’t specify which tribe or tribes she descends from. The Hanover, N.H., school has defended her hiring, saying it would never ask job applicants to document their ethnicity. There is no requirement for the program director to be Native American, Dartmouth officials said, but alumni noted that the position is traditionally held by Native Americans.
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In interviews, leaders of some of those tribes, and some Native American Dartmouth alumni, characterized the group as “pretendians” and said they had no documented connection to any tribes. Some Native American activists say they can find no records linking Ms. Reed’s family, which has helped lead the group, founded in 1984, to any tribal heritage.
Last week, the Native American Alumni Association of Dartmouth called for the school to remove Ms. Reed, saying that while the program director needn’t be a member of a recognized tribe, they must be able to relate to Indian students and help them navigate the culture of Dartmouth.
“It has become clear to the NAAAD Board that Dr. Taffe Reed cannot effectively carry out her duties,” the alumni board said.
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Nonetheless, seeing my friends on the academic left tie themselves up in knots trying to parse how "genuine" someone is, genetically speaking, fills me with a warm, ardent and self-satisfied glow.
Perhaps Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts could be invited to "pow-wow" with all parties and reach some sort of accord.
Sounds like they have a lot of native American, white women of color on the college campuses back east.
“Pretendians.”
Heh
#transraciallivesmatter
maybe it’s all a joke. She is an American and if born here makes her native yes?
"Me heap big squaw!"
I think we should consider a law that all pretendians get scalped and all fake african americans get forced into “slavery” like jobs /sarcasm....
Um, Warren hails from an Oklahoma tribe.
If a whtie man like Bruce Jenner can “self identify” as a woman and be celebrated as a hero dressed like a female on the cover of Vogue magazine, and a white woman like Rachel Dolezal can “self identify” as a black woman and be the leaader of an NAACP chapter, why can’t these New England women “self identify” as Indian Squaws?
Don’t these liberal academics at Darmouth celebrate diversity?
According to her.
If someone born in the USA
is not a native American,
what are they?
LOL - me too! Where's my new job?
Yeah, got to love it.
right up there with Fauxcahontus.
I'm enjoying all this way too much.
I'm pretty sure I'm a bad person.
You do recognize that the picture of the “sad Indian” was Italian. He never tried to hide his Italian heritage, and he worked to understand and become an Indian, so several Indian tribes treated him like a brother. He got his image from working in the movies.
Yes, the tribe that published her traditional Cherokee recipes.
There is a documented story where an investor in the Hudson Bay Company went to Canada to evaluate his investment. He asked the "company store manager" that he wanted to meet an Indian. So the store manager yelled, "McDonald, come here!"
Think about it, a lot of single white males were wandering in the backwoods. Many of them got along with the local tribes. So who do you think they married?
Ridi, Pagliaccio...
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