l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 1 Professor and Native American scholar is slammed after researchers find no
evidence to back her claims of Indian heritage
Native American scholar Andrea Smith works at the University of
California
Claims she has Cherokee background, but a genealogist has refuted claims
David Cornsik said Smith approached her to discus her heritage in the
1990s
His research found her ancestory had no link to the Cherokee people
He informed her of his findings, but she has carried on with her
identity
She insists: 'I have always been, and will always be Cherokee'
By Wills Robinson For Dailymail.com
Published: 17:27 EST, 15 July 2015 | Updated: 17:53 EST, 15 July 2015
A professor has been slammed for claiming she has a Native American heritage
, with no proof to back it up.
Andrea Smith, a noted scholar in Native American studies at the University
of California, Riverside, has been criticized because she has allegedly
produced phony links to her ethnic background to enhance her academic
pedigree.
Her critics have said she has 'fallen off the truth wagon' while one
columnist said she was 'more insidious' than the disgraced former NAACP
leader Rachel Dolezal - who quit after her parents said she was a white
woman pretending to be black.
But Smith has insisted that she has 'always been, and will always be
Cherokee', because she bases her identity on 'what I knew to be true.'
Called out: Andrea Smith, a noted scholar in Native American studies at the
University of California, Riverside, has been criticized because she has
allegedly produced phony links to her background to enhance her academic
pedigree
Called out: Andrea Smith, a noted scholar in Native American studies at the
University of California, Riverside, has been criticized because she has
allegedly produced phony links to her background to enhance her academic
pedigree
In a statement on her blog, she added: My enrollment status does not impact
my Cherokee identity or my continued commitment to organizing for justice
for Native communities.'
David Cornsilk, a Cherokee genealogist who researched Smith's lineage, found
no evidence of Cherokee bloodlines.
Cornsik, 56, wrote in Indian Country that Cherokees are well-documented and
fakers can be easily debunked.
He wrote: '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.
'They are the product of two centuries of non-Cherokees trying to lay claim
to our lands and treasury, if not by force, then by subterfuge.' |
|
