Three of Ward Churchill's Academic Frauds

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. These are becoming an issue as the UC Regents twist themselves into pretzels trying to find a politically correct way to dump this loser.

Any one of these bald-faced lies would be cause for termination of a "normal" faculty member.

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 moonbats in liberal arts and ethnic studies faculties across America have sold this story for years as if it were normal operating procedure rather than an ugly one-time occurrence under the British. See http://hal.lamar.edu/~BROWNTF/Churchill1.htm

Churchill also claims that "scalp bounties (were) paid by every English colony -- as well as every U.S. state and territory in the lower 48." False. Accourding to my own research, scalp bounties were paid by both British and French to Indians and non-Indians for enemy of Indian or non-Indian background killed in the French and Indian war of the 1750s and 60s -- before the USA existed. The Mexican states of Chihuahua, Sonora and Durango offered scalp bounties in the 1830s and 1840s. Possibly two or three Northern California municipalities offered Indian scalp bounties in the 1850s (but this is doubtful). Other than that, the statement that all 48 states and territories offered bounties is a flat lie. I am completely unable to find any collaboration for this statement beyond what I have related. Arizona and New Mexico weren't even admitted as states until 1912.

(If you were to survey students of American 4 year schools, you would find overwhelming majorities believe both the smallpox blanket story and the scalp bounty story were standard US operating procedure. They are part of the litany of lies which the little Ward Churchills infesting our campuses use to back up their line that the USA is "founded on genocide" and has "killed more people than any empire in history.")

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.

More coverage on Churchill's February trip to Univ of Hawai`i and statements by the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee denouncing Churchill:
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?f65471e9-cf11-408f-b7c2-d0eec9eaa961