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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Isn’t it very possible that she actually thought she was?

I grew up thinking I was like 25% irish and turns out I’m not at all but I only found this out after dna testing. For a long time people just believed what their parents told them who believed what their parents told them [/quote]

That would be a pretty nightmarish possibility -- she's raised with this story of how she's part native, is taken by her mom to pow wows and gets really involved with the community to the point where she builds her identity and profession around it, and realizes only once Ancestry.com and all the other databases really come into their golden age -- well after her career is underway -- that maybe the stories are false.

I can understand why she'd stick her head in the sand rather than own up. But I think she would have been far wiser to immediately address the issue, and maybe even pivot her scholarship to focus on the not-rare phenomenon of 100% European-descent people growing up with family tales of native ancestry.[/quote]

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