Posted on 02/24/2005 3:39:35 PM PST by Snapple
"What's the draw for white people to play Indian?" says Ward Churchill.
"The same draw during the 1874,5,6 period when the U.S. Nationals flooded into the Black Hills for gold, which was by treaty still Lakota property," says Ward Churchill, University of Colorado Professor of Ethnic Studies and Author of 'Fantasies of the Master Race.' "What's their draw? It's no more opaque than that. This is an exotic form of immaterial gold, intellectual gold, spiritual gold. That's their draw."
Get this!! Ward Churchill, who is not an Indian, drove off another teacher for not performing Indian religious rituals to Ward's satisfaction!!
I guess Ward Churchill doesn't want that guy to have free speech!!! The other professor left because Ward Churchill called him a phony Indian.
In this article, Ward Churchill trashes white people who "play Indians."
The article explains, " Those who claim Indian heritage to prove it by having and showing pictured enrollment card/enrollment number, and from what Tribe with a telephone # for identification."
But Ward doesn't have one of those cards with ID.
That's a mighty big chicken coming home to roost? Or is that a plucked chicken?
Hey Ward, your goose is cooked!
Note: The lawyer Lee Hill jumped bail on assault and weapons charges and seems to have fled Boulder. He was very active in manipulating the JonBenet media circus so that people would believe that the government was protecting a ring of powerful pedophiles.
http://ishgooda.org/oglala/prjames2.htm
"American Indian Movement leader Russell Means and Rudy James, chairman of the United Native Nations, pledged their support for White Calf. They said traditional Indian values and religious practices are being threatened nationwide by colleges profiting from what the White Calf's attorney called "spiritual hucksterism."
Means vowed to occupy buildings on the small campus if the lawsuit fails.
The lawsuit, filed by attorney Lee Hill, alleges fraud, harassment, negligent hiring and supervision, breach of duty, defamation and outrageous conduct.
It contends one of Naropa's former instructors in the Native American Studies program, Eagle Cruz, was not an enrolled member of the Yaqui tribe as he claimed."
Well somebody comment!! Isn't this the height of hypocricy???
What's hypocritical about an old white hippie guarding the sanctity of Native American theology? Oh, yeah.
Besides, I don't know for an absolute fact that I don't have a drop of Native American blood in me. It could happen. I am Ethnic Studies Man! Bring me firewater, Kemosabe!
Dagnab it!
I grew up singing "Way down yonder in the Indian Nation, Ridin' my pony on the reservation..."
How does it sound as "Way down yonder in the Native Nations"? Doesn't have the same ring to it. Maybe it glitters but it sure ain't 24K gold.
My grandfather and grandmother migrated to the Indian Nation from Texas. Migrated to the Native Nation? Nope.
Every section (square mile) in the whole state of Oklahoma is designated as East or West of the Indian Meridian. E or W of the Native Meridian? Don't think so. Well, how about E or W of the United Native meridian? Ooomph.
Actually, my grandmother and grandfather migrated to "Indian Territory" (IT).
I suppose they could have migrated to Native Territory? Again, nope!
One of my ancestors was "one of the best known men in the Cherokee Nation." It is in a book about Arkansas.
But I don't really know if he was Cherokee. He was a missionary and started churches.
It all seems so silly. These are supposed to be learned people and it's like they're argueing over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin and who is fit to count them.
People who try to stop other from practicing their religion as they see fit are the fascists. They may be silly, they may be wrong, they may be strange to our eyes, but people are free to do what they will as long as they are not hurting anyone.
It is shameful that a fake indian "college professor" is so ignorant that he cannot understand this.
Some ideas," wrote George Orwell, "are so stupid that only intellectuals could believe them."
Ward Churchill is an anarchist and a revolutionary. He believes he should have free speech but that we should die.
He is a very agressive, evil person.
What's this AIM they keep referring to? Certainly not Accuracy
In Media...
INTREP - Spirituality
I think's a blanket acronym for American Indian Movement.
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