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I’m starting to suspect there are more fake Indians teaching at colleges than actual American Indians. And I don’t just mean Elizabeth Warren. Here’s another Elizabeth who shares Warren’s ancestry from the fabled Fakeaho people who roamed the plains and hallways of the Ivy League and hunted jackalopes in Atlantis.
Behold this courageous truth-teller.
American Indians and Alaska Natives are at least twice as likely as whites to have Type 2 diabetes, and they have 1 1/2 times the rate of obesity as non-Hispanic whites, according to the government statistics.
But these diseases didn’t become prevalent until tribes adopted a more processed Western diet, notes Elizabeth Hoover, who is of Mohawk and Mi’kmaq ancestry and teaches about indigenous food movements at Brown University.
Hoover, who is writing a book about Native American efforts to reclaim their traditional food culture.
The article was predictably about bashing the Trump administration.
Hoover’s bio pictures tended to include her hair in a braid and wearing Indian jewelry. Like Senator Elizabeth Warren, the other Elizabeth built her career around a fake identity.
For much of Hoover’s career, going back to the 2000s, she told people she descended from the Mohawk and Mi’kmaq peoples of eastern Canada and the United States. She referenced this ancestry in news accounts and while researching her doctoral dissertation for Brown University.
Meanwhile, she won prestigious jobs, grants and fellowships, published books and papers and became a mover and shaker in the “food sovereignty” movement, according to the news site, Indianz.com. But in recent months, she’s been labeled a “Pretendian,” a high-profile figure in academia, publishing or entertainment who is accused of using a false Native American identity for money, fame or professional opportunities.
Hoover said she doesn’t plan to resign, despite a call for her to do so from more than 360 people, including other Native American scholars and activists, as well as current and former students from UC Berkeley and Brown. UC Berkeley said in December that it didn’t plan to remove her from her position. University officials told this news organization this week that it couldn’t comment on personnel matters.
Hoover used the familiar Elizabeth Warren ‘family lore’ excuse.
”I am a white person who has incorrectly identified as native my whole life, based on incomplete information. In uncritically living an identity based on family stories without seeking out a documented connection to these communities, I caused harm…
Growing up I did not question who I was told I was, or how I identified. But as an adult, as an academic, I should have done my due diligence to confirm that my ancestors were who I was told they were.”
And UC Berkeley is going with the transracial position that identity is whatever you identify as.
UC Berkeley said in December that it didn’t plan to remove her from her position. University officials told this news organization this week that it couldn’t comment on personnel matters…
At that time, campus spokesperson Janet Gilmore said the campus considers Hoover’s identity a “a deeply personal matter,” the Daily Californian reported. In a statement Wednesday, Gilmore referred to a step Hoover said she is taking to repair her relationships with colleagues and students…
Gilmore said the campus is “aware of and supports ongoing efforts to achieve restorative justice in a way that acknowledges and addresses the extent to which this matter has caused harm and upset among members of our community.”
Hoover should just blame the western diet for her behavior.
My leftist brother in law is no longer as leftist since he saw the tyranny of government during convid, but he still listens to professors giving lectures on how the western world is to blame for everything.
Just like this woman, they love a victim.
Was the unhealthy food forced on them? Is it forced on the most obese nation in the world? Could they choose to prepare their own food rather than buy processed food?
If they did choose to prepare their own healthy meals they wouldn’t have enough time to sit on their fat backsides watching junk on TV.
Agree 👍 with you. You can always tell what their political views are, always playing the victim & blaming
everyone else, they just can not stop lying to themselves & other people, & to think they are getting payed.
Once the indoctrination is set in, there is no going back.
Watch this interview for a grater understanding. KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov’s warning to America
America is nowhere near the most obese nation in the world. That claim comes from a bullshit “study” from the 80s. Tongans are by far the fattest. America isn’t even number two. Quite frankly, I see more British fatties than American ones.
Some people guzzle sugar-loaded soft drinks instead of drinking water. That’s one of the hidden causes.
I hate soda pop. I don’t know how any adult could like it. You’re like me that way.
How brave—it the word “brave” offensive to Native Americans?–of her to forego all the benefits of her white privilege! Who knew SNL’s skit with Eddie Murphy identifying as “Gumby, damn it” was so progressive?
Hoover talk with forked tongue…
“FauxCahontas II”?????????????????????????
“Was the unhealthy food forced on them?” And the rest of your comments show how ignorant you are in this particular area. I’m born and raised on a native american reservation. I never comment, we are all so different and the discussion far too complex. Briefly, natives are ‘placed’ on submarginal land, stripped of resources and their own ancestors knowledge (often perfected for a different area entirely), … its shocking that all that might make healthy eating a struggle.
The poorest don’t get a choice and the next rung up, you can bet the cheapest food you can not quite afford is unhealthy. Jobs are scarce, and so is childcare. Gardens may not be an option, and working that distant job meant not raising your kids (good thing boarding schools are an option…), and if you had to move away you left everything and everyone you know and risk your kids not knowing who they are.. If you are lucky your elders are well enough to watch the kids and be their parents, but there is a reason that the stereotype of a ‘drunk indian’ exists and its quite sad. All this without mentioning the trauma that drives addiction in our community…
Please take the time, to just start building relationships with people you don’t know, it could change your life and theirs. We don’t have to agree, but knowing that someone cares enough to listen can really soften someone’s attitude.
”trauma that drives addiction in our community…”
I care to listen/read, tell me about the trauma.
The Indians in my ancestry left the reservations on horse and wagon for a better life. It appears they saw pretty quick that the reservation life was a dead end. Bounced without taking or expecting any gov. ”benefits” to hold them down.
The point of the article was the lie told by a woman for her own gain. . Big gains. And I don’t know about that fakers topic: food. Her “scholarship” sounded condescending to me but IDK.
Faking Native American ancestry been done before on the left very publicly and with few consequences for the liars.
Sad to say, now it’s getting difficult to believe a claim of Native American ancestry is sincere. That’s the damage of all the leftist victim groups ideology. True suffering & injustice is obfuscated by fakers.
Who gains from it all ? A few elites.
Not anyone here.
Is that so different from, say, the peasant from Sicily who came to America because life at home became unbearable (a failed justice system, corruption, and organized crime were major factors in that) and moved to, say, Brooklyn, NY where the only work was in construction, a field and a culture utterly alien to a subsistence farmer? Where his family has been torn apart, parents in Sicily, maybe a brother in New Jersey, an aunt in Boston, and obviously no childcare other than the then-great public schools? How different is the Indian’s plight from that of this hypothetical immigrant, whose children grew up to be educated, successful, and middle class because they valued hard work and perseverance?
Buying a sack of potatoes and making your own mash is cheaper than buying processed mash.
Probably the lifestyle change from hunter-gatherer foraging for food was the main problem.
You’re absolutely right there. The same ammount of land it took to support an individual in a hunter gatherer lifestyle, would support hundreds of Europeans in theirs. Most North American Indians were literally starving by spring. And people who are used to starving gain weight where there is abundance. That’s not abundance’s ‘fault’ though.