California prof latest academic to have claims of Indian heritage debunked
By Edmund DeMarche
Published July 15, 2015
Professor Andrea Smith reportedly asked a a Cherokee genealogist to find out if she had any lineage to the tribe and both times was told she did not. (University of California Riverside)
A tenured California professor is the latest academic to be accused of re-writing their personal history when claiming Cherokee heritage.
Andrea Smith, an associate professor at the University of California Riverside and a noted scholar in Native American studies, has been called out by critics who say she, like former Harvard Law professor Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D- Mass., and Ward Churchill, a former University of Colorado professor who infamously likened 9/11 victims to Nazis, used the phony claims to enhance her faculty pedigree.
"Wannabes like Andrea use the myths of Cherokees hiding in the hills, passing for white or being saved by righteous whites, to perpetuate their lies," said David Cornsilk, a Cherokee genealogist who researched Smith's lineage and found no evidence of Cherokee bloodlines.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/07/1...emic-to-have-claims-indian-heritage-debunked/
By Edmund DeMarche
Published July 15, 2015
Professor Andrea Smith reportedly asked a a Cherokee genealogist to find out if she had any lineage to the tribe and both times was told she did not. (University of California Riverside)
A tenured California professor is the latest academic to be accused of re-writing their personal history when claiming Cherokee heritage.
Andrea Smith, an associate professor at the University of California Riverside and a noted scholar in Native American studies, has been called out by critics who say she, like former Harvard Law professor Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D- Mass., and Ward Churchill, a former University of Colorado professor who infamously likened 9/11 victims to Nazis, used the phony claims to enhance her faculty pedigree.
"Wannabes like Andrea use the myths of Cherokees hiding in the hills, passing for white or being saved by righteous whites, to perpetuate their lies," said David Cornsilk, a Cherokee genealogist who researched Smith's lineage and found no evidence of Cherokee bloodlines.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/07/1...emic-to-have-claims-indian-heritage-debunked/
