This guy is the classic "cultural and linguistic entrepreneur", unburdened by even rudimentary honesty and fueled by the most perverted ambitions. He certainly has found a home in the margins of academia. He's what real Native Americans call a "wannabe", a lower form of life which they occasionally tolerate but secretly (or not) despise; a "Cherohonkie", as a Native American author wrote "one of the 10 million assholes who claim their great grandmother was half Cherokee." Quite frankly, the guy is a "schmuck" of biblical proportions. What a disgrace to a great name (if that really turns out to be his name).
Well as it happens, my own paternal grandmother was in fact half blood Cherokee- although I would never presume to trade on that fact or use it for such nefarious purposes as Ward Churchill has done. Does that make me one of the aforementioned '10 million assholes' or what?