Presumed "Native American" UCB Professor Finally Openly Admits She Is "White" Amidst Cries For Resignation

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UC Berkeley scholar apologizes for wrongly claiming to be Native American her ‘whole life’

....A California professor who claimed she was Native American for her entire life has revealed she is white, apologizing for breaking the trust of the Native communities she lived alongside.....Elizabeth Hoover, an associate professor in the environmental science and policy management department at UC Berkeley, said she “incorrectly identified” herself...“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.”....Hoover’s Twitter account, which hasn’t been tweeted from since 2020, features multiple Native American protests the professor was a part of and the many food summits she attended....

....Identifying as Native American, she revealed she had access to resources she wouldn’t have if she only identified as a white person.....“Before taking part in programs or funding opportunities that were identity-related or geared towards under-represented people I should have ensured that I was claimed in return by the communities I was claiming,”....claimed to be of Mohawk and Mi’kmaq descent, whose tribes were native to the northeastern part of the US and Canada.....she always identified herself as “someone of mixed Mohawk, Mi’kmaq, French, English, Irish, and German descent and identity.”

.... 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....” 

A petition demanding Hoover’s resignation received over 350 signatures last November.....Hoover went on to say her false claims didn’t just hurt the Native communities she claimed to be a part of, but also the students she taught while she researched her specializations of “Native American food systems, Native American environmental health movements and Indigenous uses of fire.”....Hoover acknowledged that her apology was long overdue and wouldn’t accomplish much......“I hurt Native people who have been my friends, colleagues, students, and family, both directly through fractured trust and through activating historical harms...This hurt has also interrupted student and faculty life and careers.....For this, I am deeply sorry.....”

https://nypost.com/2023/05/05/uc-berkeley-professor-elizabeth-hoover-apologizes-for-native-american-claim/

https://www.profelizabethmhoover.com/identity

 

Photo Of "Native American" Hoover Protesting "Stolen Land"

 

Photo Of "Native American" Hoover Accepting Award Meant For Actual Native Americans

 

Photo Of "Native American" Hoover On Horseback Wearing Or "Cosplaying" With Some Traditional Native American Jewelry / Accessories

 

 

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A Letter to Elizabeth Hoover

Yesterday, on May 1, 2023, Elizabeth Hoover put up a “Letter of Accountability and Apology” on her personal webpage in which she states, “I am a white person who has incorrectly identified as Native my whole life.” .....In February of 2021 Elizabeth Hoover’s name appeared on the controversial “Alleged Pretendian List.”  Since she had long asserted that she was of Mohawk/Mi’kmaq descent and the list contained the names of people who have actual, undisputed Native ties or are even enrolled in their nations, I offered to help her to write a statement about her identity to clear things up. She declined, but said she would talk with others to decide what to do. I realized then that I had never heard the full story of her family....Failing a clear story from her I embarked on my own research into her claims. After extensive research utilizing Canadian and US census records, death certificates, obituaries, marriage certificates, baptismal records, and census data from Kahnawake I found no Indigenous ties on the lines that she had claimed, tracing back to her great-great-great grandparents....

.....In April 2022, Acee Agoyo of Indianz.com published a very disturbing research-driven account of her claims, looking up her dissertation, her on-line bios, while also investigating the allegations of sexual assault against her then partner. ...In her direct response to me....She refuted ever lying about her identity and insists that her shifting claims about her identity in written documents was not about obfuscation or attempts to back away from her claims. She also refutes others who recall her claiming to be from other Mohawk communities as untrue.

...From what you have told me, only recently: Your great grandmother, Adeline Rivers, was from Kahnawake, but left when she married her husband (who I now know is Morris Ovitt), a Frenchman. He was abusive and harmful, and she took her own life by drowning herself in the St. Lawrence River. Her son, your Grandfather, who I now know is Leroy Ovitt, was then raised by another woman or family and disconnected from his heritage.....To be a descendant of a tribal nation you must actually descend from that nation. As a professor of Native American studies, you know more than anyone that Indigenous identity is about nationhood. You have, as far as I can tell, no documented ties to any tribal nation. You only ever claimed a generic “Mohawk” and a generic “Mi’kmaq” which I now recognize as something I should have picked up on years ago. Those are not tribal nations. They are groups of tribal nations....
....You are a professor of Native studies. You make your entire living and career off of being Native. You have a responsibility to know your own family story.....There are also signs that show you did know the story wasn’t true. You’ve slowly erased your tribal affiliation from your bios online through the years, the parenthetical after your name stating Elizabeth Hoover (Mohawk/Mi’kmaq) has disappeared, you didn’t offer any kind of deep positionality in your book .... and Devon Mihesuah shared that you changed your bio for your book together in 2018 right before it went to press to remove any mention of your ancestry. That’s four years ago. I have a hard time believing or understanding that you would have done all this if you didn’t know at some level and were trying to cover your tracks....

.....You did all of your “good work” based on what appears to be a lie. You told communities and organizations you were Mohawk and Mi’kmaq. You gained entry into spaces because of that lie. You gained entry into sacred ceremonial spaces where no non-Natives are allowed based on that lie. You created family based on that lie. You earned grants and jobs and fellowships based on that lie. You gained trust for your research based on that lie. The “good work” does not exist in the world on its own. You used previous relationships and others vouching for you as a “Native woman” to gain entry into additional spaces. You built trust and relationships based on the fact that you were Mohawk and Mi’kmaq, which is untrue. You strategically performed identity in visible and marked ways so folks would make assumptions and not ask questions.....The thing that is hard for me is you could have done all of this good work as a white woman.....You could have had the same career and do the same work as a white woman, and folks would have welcomed it. But now you’ve broken all of the trust and called into question all of the work, because you started it with a lie.... 

There has to be some kind of accountability..... All of your friends, your collaborators, your co-authors, your students are all having their judgment questioned. Folks are calling to not assign your work any longer, meaning any of your co-authors and the communities whose stories you are telling also suffer. I and others can no longer ask you for letters of recommendation. I’ve had to field dozens and dozens of texts, phone calls, emails, and zoom meetings from your devastated and angry former students and colleagues. I have to be gaslit by everyone who doesn’t want to believe it’s true or who questions my own judgment for being so close to you for so long.....To me it seems like such an easy fix–you just tell the truth, even if it’s messy,.....There is no reason to back down if you have truth behind you. But now I see that there wasn’t a way for you to fix it, because there aren’t family names to share. There isn’t a story to tell....

....You’ve used stories that weren’t your own. You implied your family was harmed by settler colonial policies, such the misogyny of the Indian Act, you implied your great grandmother was a victim of racist abuse, you allowed for everyone to fill in gaps and blanks with stories we all know from our own families and communities. But these stories weren’t the stories of your family. Your story has also shifted and changed, and even adjusted as new information emerged....“There are real Native people out here with deeply complex identity stories. But that’s not you. You take advantage of centuries of violent displacement. You hide in the cracks of our trauma, feasting on opportunities. How long have you been pretending? What started this game? ....so you thought you could sneak in the back door. To compensate for your hopeless mediocrity by presenting as…whatever this is....As you pick and choose all the positives of who we are without ever once experiencing any of the hardships. I want you to look at me and tell me who you really are.....” 

https://nativeappropriations.com/2023/05/a-letter-to-elizabeth-hoover.html

 

 

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Here is where this controversy gets interesting. The radical left and the core of the establishment Democrats give a non stop hard push towards having children 'identify' as they please. If you were biologically born a male, then you can be anything across an entire spectrum of "genders"  Or if you were born biologically a female, you can even identity as an animal. Or a ghost. Or whatever is your "truth"

However why can't the same political Party apparatus accept someone being "Trans-Racial? Or Trans-Anything for that matter? 

Some questions worth introspection

1) If Elizabeth Hoover is so "sorry", why doesn't she resign and give back all the money she's ever earned from the "lie"?

2) Why won't she admit to the lie? How can you truly be sorry if you attempt to rationalize your lie? 

3) Doesn't this situation take a big bite out of claims of generalized "systemic racism and bigotry" in Big Education? After all, why would Hoover do this unless there was more incentive and monetization potential to NOT be white instead? Do any of the radical leftists here want to address that? 

4) If the Democratic Party is leaning farther and farther left into hard line identity politics, then if you look at the Hoover situation, plus the Elizabeth Warren situation and the Rachel Dolezal scandal, who exactly has "privilege" now? 

5) Shouldn't this all be classified under "fraud" instead of a cultural/social scandal?  Hoover spent an entire lifetime signing government documents to affirm these lies. 

6) What does it say that Hoover just couldn't lie about her background, but she had to quadruple down on it and fabricate falsehoods that her family were victims of previous white oppression and that her own 'grandmother' suffered massive amounts of brutal domestic abuse, racism and bigotry? How much of a "victim" does your narrative have to make you so you can get tenure faster or get another book deal or get a fatter University paycheck? 

But here is the big one for everyone. 

If Elizabeth Hoover was a Conservative and/or a Republican, how much different would the MSM handle this scandal? 

[Voltaire 5,181]

Time to run for US Senate and later the presidency.

[Hardcore troubadour 14,915]

Yeah but Al Jolson wore blackface in the 1920’s. So, this is just a whataboutism. 

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It’s kind of weird that nobody ever pretends to be white. 

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6 hours ago, Dizkneelande said:

It’s kind of weird that nobody ever pretends to be white. 

We’ve incentivized being marginalized 

[Dizkneelande 1,085]

10 minutes ago, Fireballer said:

We’ve incentivized being marginalized 

But being white carries privilege I’m so confused.

[Fireballer 2,639]

28 minutes ago, Dizkneelande said:

But being white carries privilege I’m so confused.

#mindblown

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9 hours ago, Dizkneelande said:

It’s kind of weird that nobody ever pretends to be white. 

Why would you?  There is no real advantage to it. Of course people fake being something else though.

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9 hours ago, Dizkneelande said:

It’s kind of weird that nobody ever pretends to be white. 

It is because of all the white privilege, like being rounded up and imprisoned for speaking up. 

[jonmx 2,424]

2023 white Americans are the new 1930 German jews. 

[wiffleball 4,788]

How?

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Five white women who lied about their ancestry

Here are five white women who have claimed to belong to a different ethnic group:

Rachel Dolezal - In 2015, Rachel Dolezal was forced to resign from her position as the president of the Spokane, Washington, chapter of the NAACP. Her resignation came after media outlets reported that, while she presented herself as a black woman, Dolezal was in fact born to two white parents.....Dolezal, who has since changed her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo, claimed that she identified as black and has defended herself since her high-profile fall from grace. In a 2017 interview with the Guardian, Dolezal said she believed racial identity was more fluid than gender identity.....“I feel that I was born with the essential essence of who I am, whether it matches my anatomy and complexion or not....I’ve never questioned being a girl or woman, for example, but whiteness has always felt foreign to me for as long as I can remember. I didn’t choose to feel this way or be this way; I just am. What other choice is there than to be exactly who we are?”

Elizabeth Warren -  For nearly 10 years, Warren was identified as Native American in a directory for the Association of American Law Schools while a professor at Harvard Law School....Warren repeatedly defended her claims of Native American ancestry but eventually apologized in 2019 after a DNA test revealed she had little, if any, Native American blood. The controversy prompted then-President Donald Trump to tab her with the nickname "Pocahontas" as Warren sought the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

Hillary 'Hilaria' Baldwin - The wife of actor Alec Baldwin employed a Spanish accent for years, claiming that the Iberian nation was her native home before it was revealed that she was actually from Boston and that she had been faking the accent. Hilaria Baldwin defended herself, saying she would not apologize and that she "grew up with two cultures" and spoke two languages....."I care because my thing is about being authentic — and then if people say I’m not being authentic, it hurts my feelings. … I don’t really understand why it’s turning into such a big thing.....I’m getting attacked for being who I am … people wanting to label me Spanish or American. Can’t it be both?"

Carrie Bourassa - A professor of community health and epidemiology at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, Carrie Bourassa resigned from her position last year after a 2021 report from CBC revealed that she was likely 100% European despite claiming indigenous ancestry. Bourassa had claimed to be a member of the Metis, Anishinaabe, and Tlingit peoples, three indigenous groups from Canada. She used the name “Morning Star Bear” when introducing herself at a 2019 TEDx talk.

Elizabeth Hoover - The newest member of the misrepresented ethnicity club, University of California, Berkeley environmental science professor Elizabeth Hoover issued a lengthy apology this week for "incorrectly identifying" as Native American. Hoover's research at the California University centered on "Native American environmental health."...."I have brought hurt, harm, and broken trust to the Native community at large, and to specific Native communities I have worked with and lived alongside, and for that, I am deeply sorry," Hoover wrote in a lengthy apology statement posted on her website.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/five-white-women-who-lied-about-their-ancestry

 

 

 

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Indiana councilman who 'came out' as Native American lesbian pushes back on calls to resign

.....An Indiana councilman who was born a Caucasian male and recently "came out" as a lesbian woman of color pushed back on calls for him to resign after he also reportedly received death threats....Delaware County Councilman Ryan Webb announced he is now identifying as a Native American, given he purports to have select Cherokee ancestors on both sides of his family. He also declared he is identifying as a woman – and a lesbian because he remains married to his female wife. .....He also said he will retain his "he/him" pronouns and given name.

......Webb told Fox News Monday he is "very proud" to highlight his Native American ancestors, to which host Jesse Watters asked if he had more Cherokee blood than another public official who purported to be Native American, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass......"I don't profess to know the history of Ms. Warren,.....But I think it's pretty it's pretty consistent. I have Cherokee on both sides of my family, so I think it's enough to self-identify as a woman of color."

......Warren identified as Native American on a Texas bar application, according to a Washington Post report – and she was accused of participating in a "diversity sham" by then-Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., her election opponent, when it was reported she listed herself as Native American in a law professor directory. .....when someone comes out as an identity different from the one medically determined at birth, they are celebrated, and that when others question those individuals, they are labeled "transphobic" or "racist."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/indiana-councilman-came-out-native-american-lesbian-pushes-back-critics

 

 

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So there are many radical leftists and woke activists who literally want Ryan Webb dead for what they claim is being something that he is not. However, technically speaking, he's more "Native American" than Elizabeth Warren. 

Beat that with a stick. 

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Didn't they know that systemic racism would hold them back? Why would someone decide to become part of a group that is purportedly "held back"?  

Also, why would people in marginalized communities that are being "held back" care if someone of "priviledge" decided to join them in their.....uhh....."misery"?

Finally, if these people feel that they are actually minorities...then if we follow liberal logic, as with the trannies, we cannot question them......right?