Move over, Ward Churchill, Elizabeth Warren and Rachel Dolezal, there's a new fraud in town. --The Daily Surge reports that Andrea Smith, a UC Riverside professor of media and cultural studies who is often described as a top "Cherokee Intellectual," apparently isn't a Cherokee at all. --She appears as a featured scholar at major events and has written books that were well-received by her colleagues. Her career has largely been defined by her supposed American Indian identity. Besides her academic work, she also helped create the organization INCITE!, which describes itself as a collection of “radical feminists of color.” She’s also been active in the Indian group Women of All Red Nations (WARN).
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(Hat tip: KimR)
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
More Progressive Identity Theft: Top 'Cherokee Intellectual' Not Actually Cherokee
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After a failed Croatan identity before congress asking for money in 1900 the former group known only as mulattos based in Scuffleton(Pembroke) ,North Carolina in Pembroke an Immemorial Negro settlement existed ,a Homogenous free negro settlement clearly identified by the New York Heralds Feb 1872, article on the origins of the mulatto capitol known now as Pembroke NC called a group with no significant indian history or actually none at all became Cherokee also on a historic scale of the own free will and desire………….
ReplyDeleteThe Lumbee Identity theft past Bills to be recognized as Cherokee,,Petitioned and ask for by croatan lumbee member with signed petitions in Robeson County.Lumbee faction leaders then SEIZED upon the idea of claiming“Cherokee” heritage.In 1910,over the objections of the existing recognized Cherokee tribes,
1. 1910(January24)Introduction of a Federal bill by Lumbee members in the U.S.House of Representatives to change the tribes name from”Croatan to”Cherokee”at the request of the Croatans(lumbee)
THE BILL DID NOT PASS
2. 1913(July 10)Introduction of another federal bill by Lumbee members in the U.S. Senate to”change the tribes name from Indians of Robeson County to”Cherokee Indians”of Robeson County”by the Lumbee
THE BILL DID NOT PASS
3. 1924(March 20)Introduction of a bill again by Lumbee members in the U.S. House to change the tribal name to”Cherokee”by the lumbee
THE BILL DID NOT PASS
4 . 1932(May 9).A federal bill was introduced in the U.S.Senate to”RECOGNIZE AND ENROLL the tribe as”Cherokee Indians”at the request of the lumbee(croatan)council.
THE BILL DID NOT PASS
signed petitions each time by over 600 Lumbee/croatan members each and everYtime so ignorance cannot be claimed!
after all bill failed the lumbee in 1945 then joined the NCAI as the Cherokees of Robeson county.