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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So disturbing to read about another white settler, Elizabeth Hoover (professor at UC Berkeley, attended Brown) who based on some family lore pretended to be indigenous, cosplays being indigenous, benefits academically being indigenous.

The Cal student paper published the story back in Nov but it is getting a lot of media coverage this week
https://dailycal.org/2022/11/01/campus-associate-professor-elizabeth-hoover-rescinds-claim-to-native-american-ancestry

Statement from former students
https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vQBXq0rEI1qygmecbqjZtIBWORZc9ovd-Sl88SQcQ1OKyCXwOCkp18FVsO8MiGq3EstBSq1HN4YcKhN/pub?urp=gmail_link

Statement from former friend who realizes Hoover is a fraud
https://nativeappropriations.com/2023/05/a-letter-to-elizabeth-hoover.html
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This family lore thing is incredibly common. We had it in my family — took a DNA test to disprove my mother’s insistence that there was Algonkian blood in our family.

What’s more surprising is the gullibility of someone who became a professor. But OTOH most of us grow up believing our family members to be truthful.

I am curious about the sociological reasons for this weirdly common family myth.[/quote]

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