[lawdude]

I attended law school at a small Midwest university. One of the courses was taught by the local Indian Studies prof. He was not of Indian (NA) origin but he seemed to think he was (I must say, these are my perceptions only).

He would cry when talking of the plight of the Indian and just how badly they had been treated (no argument there). However his concepts of what to do to correct the misdeeds of the past were totally out of the world. The bottom line was that white man (white Anglo European) was the root of all evil. Just hated himself for the evils brought by his (our) forefathers).

It almost appears these people get so tangled in the issue, they become unable to separate themselves from the fictions and embrace any and all information whether fact or fiction. In doing so, they become part of the problem.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I think Churchill is deranged. He wouldn't be the first white man to pass himself off as an Indian to gain some sympathy.
There was a guy in Minneapolis back in the 1980s who liked to hit on women in the Indian community, passing himself as "blood."

[ClaireSolt]

There is so much of this politically motivated ethnic stuff on campus that it has swept aside legitimate historical study which has a firm basis in scholarship.

[bvw]

Your story correlates well to Thomas Brown's observation: "Anti-white racism within AIM is largely perpetrated by people—such as Churchill—who are insecure in their own Indian identity."