Posted on 02/25/2005 6:15:57 AM PST by AmericanMade1776
Colorado University Professor Ward Churchill's false claim to Indian ancestry is well documented.
Less well known are the out and out lies Churchill has told in advancing various "histories" of Indians in the United States.
Any one of these bald-faced lies would be cause for termination of a "normal" faculty member.
Churchill's leftist academic friends have intimidated the usual self-policing mechanisms of academic integrity.
It is time for that to change.
Americas's students deserve to be taught by serious academics, not liars con-artists and frauds.
America's professors deserve the chance to keep their profession clear of those who don't measure up.
Here are three with links to the academic sources:
In defending his claim of American "genocide" against Indians, Churchill invents a story about smallpox blankets being distributed in 1837 to the Mandan Indians of North Dakota. The story is completely false, and is refuted by the sources which Churchill claims as support. With this lie dispatched, the only documented incidence of smallpox blankets being distributed was by a British General, Lord Amherst, at Fort Pitt, 1763. Yet the cultural nationalist majority in liberal arts and ethnic studies faculties across America has sold this story for years as if it were normal operating procedure rather than a one-time occurrence.
See http://hal.lamar.edu/~BROWNTF/Churchill1.htm
(Excerpt) Read more at hawaiireporter.com ...
Churchill's article here: http://www.progressive.org/pmpdvwc0.htm
Churchill also invents lies about the Dawes Act of 1887 which reorganized Indian tribes. He does this in protest against the blood-quantum basis for tribal membership. Apparently he wants non-Indians such as himself to be allowed to come in and take over from the real Indians.
See http://lawschool.unm.edu/faculty/lavelle/allotment-act.pdf
Churchill's writings are a gold mine for investigative historians and journalists. These are only three examples of many.
Reach Andrew Walden, editor and founder of Hawaii Free Press, via email at mailto:andrewwalden@email.com
Nice column. Thanks for posting it.
Or chillen are not being taught in schools. They are being indoctrinated. Churchill needs an attitude adjustment with a Louieville Slugger.
This guy has some nerve....what a fraud.
if this is true, then why is he still there teaching?
Churchill's art fraud
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1350713/posts
Churchill's Acting like he is an Indian Fraud
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1350529/posts
Of course there is more than that: the smallpox blanket incident involving Lord Amherst happened at a time when the germ theory of disease had not even been formulated, and the 'contagion theory' of disease was what would now be called 'politically incorrect'. It was rejected by enlightened European society as a form of 'blaming the victim'.
The gift of blankets was not an act of genocide but an ill-conceived and
fatal attempt at charity: the blankets which no longer served their deceased owners were supposed to keep the natives warm, not kill them.
There is a lot of rot read back into the history of the period on the basis of the erroneous assumptions about the state of medical knowledge and practice. My personal favorite is the lie that Cotton Mather objected to vaccination against smallpox because he wrote treatises against the immorality of the pre-Jenner practice of 'injection' by which some European nations make a fire-break against smallpox by deliberately infecting some of their population with smallpox.
Because he is in 'ethnic studies', one of the parisite academic 'diciplines' which arose after the 1960's which, unlike academic disciplines which have been around since the 19th century (or better still, the days of the trivium and quadrivium) have not intellectual standards.
When is someone going to take actions on this fraud.
I do not believe that there is any documentation for the claim that Lord Amherst implemented a scheme to infect Native Americans with small pox. The only reference I have seen to the small pox scheme is Amherst's letter (quoted by Francis Parkman in his history of Pontiac's rebellion) to the effect that the colonials should "find a way" to infect the indians with small pox. Parkman states that there is no direct evidence that the scheme was implemented. This claim, like that concerning the plains indians, may well be false, notwithstanding the fact that it is presented as fact in current history texts.
YOU WON't BELEIVE THIS ONE!
Go to:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=360&item=7301790643&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
That is artwork being sold on Ebay from a print made by Ward Churchill.
The trouble is he stole a mirror image of the artwork in this book by Thomas Mails:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/156924538X/qid=1109341986/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-4075670-5771317?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
The local Colorado news caught him on tape yesterday and asked about his theft of a copyrighted work which he made 100 copies of and sold for $100 each! He fessed up and said the buyers were just ignorant of the source of the art!
too bad we cannot contact the bidders/seller and inform them that this might be a fraud...
Not really: most of us in academe still work in respectable fields with intellectual standards as a whole (like mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, business,. . .) or in large subdisciplines (economics, history, political science, psychology, . . .) or are in the minorities holding out for sense and standards in old fields which have gone rotten (literary criticism, philosophy, . . .)
The noisy leftists from post-1960's 'disciplines' (cough, cough) where activism counts more for tenure than real scholarship are about as representative of academe as San Francisco's drag queens are of the entire state of California--sure they're there and get lots of ink and photo-ops, but they aren't really representative.
With the tsunami of lies that this commie a-hole has written and told, the only thing that surprises me is: How did he not get the nod for Secretary of Edumacashun under x42?
The ebay print might become valuable. The pic that slayed Ward Churchill.
It seems that any unscrupulous huckster can sell his lies by labeling himself a minority, even if the label is false.
IF that's true, I'm really glad to hear it. My son in high school is getting an earful about the virtues of communism and Lenin as a great leader, contrasted with the heartlessness of the capitalist systems that esteem competition and survival of the fittest. The "geography" teacher is getting paid with my tax dollars!
one now wonders why he isn't being sued over this, and kicked out of the university for criminal bahavior?
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