Posted on 05/05/2023 4:11:54 AM PDT by lowbridge
A California professor who claimed she was Native American for her entire life has revealed she is white, apologizing for breaking the trust of the Native communities she lived alongside.
Elizabeth Hoover, an associate professor in the Environmental Science and Policy Management department at UC Berkeley, said she “incorrectly identified” herself based on “incomplete information, according to a statement posted to her personal website on Monday.
“In uncritically living an identity based on family stories without seeking out a documented connection to these communities, I caused harm,” Hoover said.
Hoover, who has published books and articles about Native American food sovereignty and other issues, said she never had proper documentation to confirm or dispute her claims of being Native American.
“Growing up I did not question who I was told I was, or how I identified,” Hoover said. “But as an adult, as an academic, I should have done my due diligence to confirm that my ancestors were who I was told they were.”
Hoover’s Twitter account, which hasn’t been tweeted from since 2020, features multiple Native American protests the professor was a part of and the many food summits she attended.
Identifying as Native American, she revealed she had access to resources she wouldn’t have if she only identified as a white person.
“Before taking part in programs or funding opportunities that were identity-related or geared towards under-represented people I should have ensured that I was claimed in return by the communities I was claiming,” Hoover added.
Hoover claimed to be of Mohawk and Mi’kmaq descent, whose tribes were native to the Northeastern part of the US and Canada.
Hoover had also said she always identified herself as “someone of mixed Mohawk, Mi’kmaq, French, English, Irish, and German descent and identity.”
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What is it with people named Elizabeth?!
“It’s not my fault”… waaaaaa waaaaa
That’s OK, you can identify as anything you want! Elizabeth Warren has, Blumenthal has, and so many others.
After a lifetime of deceit, an apology is hardly enough and is not accepted.
You mean a radical left wing activist lied? Nooooooo.......say it ain’t so. How bizarre.
A lot of white leftists do this. It’s why it never impacted Elizabeth Warrens’ reelection. I first noticed it back in the 1980s. Later after NAGPRA, I started seeing pictures of hippies showing up to claim Indian remains. At that time, many registered tribes admitted anyone to membership. One of the great things about the advent of casinos is that the tribes started kicking the imposters out, didn’t want to share the money.
Iron Eyes Cody has a tear running his face over this.
That makes her a transengine and not a cisengine
-——associate professor in the Environmental Science——
Lies and doesn’t use science about her life, and lies and doesn’t use science in the classroom.
At least she is consistently a liar.
I worked for a company that initiated Diversity after the LA riots. One guy in the office suddenly became a Native American and decorated his office.
Immediately fire and return all earnings earned under false pretenses and reimburse all students who took any classes she taught.
Lying about her “Indian” heritage did Elizabeth Warren quite well. She was a law professor at Rutgers, a fine school but not a feeder for Harvard. The opening at Harvard was for a Native American law professor and somehow despite having NO Indian heritage other than perhaps watching Fess Parker in Daniel Boone tv series, she got it. And she knew damned well it was on the basis of a lie, contributing some high end crab dip to the Pow Wow Chow book of recipes at Harvard as though native peoples have either the time or money to eat such wine and brie type food. But it never bothered the proper liberals nor their lockstep media allies who dominate Massachusetts politics, so now she is one of the most powerful members of the Senate.
bttt
Native Americas are actually from China. Archeologists have located underwater ruins of Chinese take-out restaurants all along the Bering Strait land bridge. Rice powered SUVs forced the climate to change, flooding the land bridge and ocean front properties of former Chinese public servants.
Well, if she was born here, she’s a native American. Period.
Wasn’t he mixed Ashkenazi and italian?
Which part did Elizabeth get wrong? The first half? Second half?
Since he had been cast as an Indian so often, Sal Mineo couldn’t get a part in the God Father movies even though he was of Sicilian heritage.
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