as a real Native American of the Yurok Tribe , Klamath River N. Calif. I am offended at both these morons. Forget “Redskins, Indians, Chiefs “ etc. those don’t bother most Indians at all, but this does.
Good to hear! Great to have a true Native American give their thoughts
Isn’t the running joke “Yeah, she’s a member of the Wannabe tribe”? Trump needs to use that same language.
One of the authors I’ve worked with is a language director for the Lenape/Delaware in OK. He did fantastic work with one of the last fluent speakers and was adopted into the tribe.
Recently a Lenape group formed here in PA which has got the OK Delawares scratching their heads—particularly since the PA folks claim Delaware ancestry but won’t release their genealogical information. One of the women of this group has become a minor authority to local colleges and museums on Lenape culture and language.
The OK Delawares have been trying to alert these institutions that this group’s Lenape credentials are suspect to say the least.
But hardly any of these academics care. They basically keep rubber stamping her work without demanding credentials or anything. And of course they are completely ignorant of the real history of the Delawares so it doesn’t even occur to them to ask the right questions.
Sounds like Harvard did the same. It is very frustrating.