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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] She didn't identify as native her whole life and lived as such.  She did it to grift opportunities:

Following the apology, Adrienne Keene, an assistant professor at Brown University and a Cherokee Nation citizen, who says she used to be friends with Hoover, wrote a letter on her own blog saying Hoover’s story quickly fell apart when Keene first started looking into it over a year ago.

“I will say that this work was not particularly difficult nor did it require a lot of specialized knowledge — her story fell apart very quickly, within a few clicks, but the subsequent months were spent trying every avenue to find something that would explain her claims, triangulating and triple checking, looking in new databases, finding more and new documents, or going back another generation,” Keene wrote.[/quote]

Actually, if you follow the link to Keene's letter, you'll see that Keene cites newspaper archives that show Hoover was claiming native identity in letters written to the editor when she was 17.

So she's been making this claim since her teenage years. Wild![/quote]

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