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The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, in an article yesterday, incorrectly quoted University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill as admitting that he was not American Indian. The story about Churchill's Tuesday night speech at the University of Hawaii-Manoa said the professor noted that his "white Republican" critics were asking, "Is he an Indian? Do we really care?" "Let's cut to the chase, I'm not," the quote in yesterday's paper continued. But a review of video and audio tapes of the speech shows that Churchill actually said: "Is he an Indian? "We really care. We're trying to protect the rights of Indians to divine...

In the days following the slaughter of 3,000 human beings on Sept. 11 by followers of Osama bin Laden, after a huge hole was ripped in the fabric of all that is considered humane and decent, University of Hawaii Hawaiian Studies Professor Haunani-Kay Trask ignored the grief of an entire nation and coldly parroted the comment of Malcolm X after President John F. Kennedy was killed: “Chickens have come home to roost.” This week, Trask was the lead cheerleader for University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill, a man she introduced at a press conference as a “comrade” whom she has...