Ward Churchill has been masquerading as an Indian for years He waves around an honorary membership card that at one time was issued to anyone by the Keetoowah Tribe of Oklahoma. Former President Bill Clinton and many others received these cards, but these cards do not qualify the holder a member of any tribe.
Ward Churchill is a fraud.
Churchill has said at various times that he is either one-sixteenth or three-sixteenths Cherokee, yet genealogical reporting by the Rocky Mountain News and others has failed to turn up any Cherokee ancestors - or any other Native Americans - in Churchill's family tree.
Ethic's wise...if Ward can't prove any member of his family was ever an Indian...then he has to pack up the tee-pee and head off into the sunset. My guess is that he figured long ago...as most of us associated with the military...that you can claim Indian status or Eskimo status...and no one will question the matter. For the university...its great because they hired someone of color. Doesn't matter that they lied...its matters that you have more minorities on the school payroll.