‘I am a White person:’ UC Berkeley scholar apologizes for wrongly claiming to be Native American
spent the past half-century falsely claiming to be White Mountain Apache and Yaqui.
The call for Hoover to resign first came in November after she issued an initial statement about her identity. At that time, she made no apology but explained that her background included family lore about great-grandmothers who were Mohawk and Mi’kmaq. Her mother also took her and her sisters to powwows to connect them with their heritage. But last year, Hoover said she and others concluded that they couldn’t verify any ties to the groups she claimed to belong to.
Josh Sargent, a member of the Akwesasne Mohawk community in upstate New York, where Hoover researched the impact of industrial contamination in the St. Lawrence River for her dissertation, said she’s “a good person and always welcome here.” Debates about her identity seem to be taking place in the “bubble of academia,” he said, while the real challenges facing Native people are being overlooked.
Simpson also had harsh words for the idea that Hoover’s issue is “personal,” saying the controversy could could hurt Berkeley’s scholarly reputation in Native American circles. “This is a matter of misconduct with wide-reaching effects,” Simpson continued. “Whether intentional or not, she has committed a form of fraud she has benefited enormously from doing so.”
South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
'I hurt Native people': UC Berkeley scholar faces uproar after claiming Indigenous heritageElizabeth M. Hoover, an associate professor at UC Berkeley, said she has 'incorrectly identified' as a woman of Mohawk and Mi’kmaq descent.
Read more »
‘I am a White person:’ UC Berkeley scholar apologizes for wrongly claiming to be Native American her ‘whole life’The controversy surrounding anthropologist Elizabeth Hoover has sparked calls for her resignation and concerns among her students and Native American scholars about UC Berkeley’s academic int…
Read more »
Pa. college apologizes for digging up Native American burial groundBack in 1899, a Swarthmore professor dug up a Native American burial ground and displayed its remains and artifacts.
Read more »
Native American tribe condemns Biden admin effort to ban oil, gas leasing on landsThe Navajo Nation's legislative council approved a resolution this week condemning and opposing a Biden administration proposal banning oil and gas drilling.
Read more »
Three bills heading to governor would be wins for Colorado’s Asian, Native American communitiesThree bills Gov. Jared Polis is considering: — Recognize Lunar New Year as an observed state holiday — Protect Native American kids in guardianship, adoption cases — Require schools to allow traditional Native regalia at graduations
Read more »
University of California Blasted for Slow Return of Native American Remains, ArtifactsThe University of California is failing to return hundreds of thousands of Native American remains and artifacts to their tribes of origin, despite a decades-long legal mandate to do so, according to a recent state audit.
Read more »