{"id":1841814,"date":"2023-02-10T07:35:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T12:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1841814"},"modified":"2023-02-10T07:39:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T12:39:26","slug":"the-rise-of-fauxcahontas-increase-in-unsubstantiated-claims-of-native-american-ancestry-have-begun-to-plague-faculties-in-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-rise-of-fauxcahontas-increase-in-unsubstantiated-claims-of-native-american-ancestry-have-begun-to-plague-faculties-in-academia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of Fauxcahontas: Increase in Unsubstantiated Claims of Native American Ancestry Have Begun to Plague Faculties in Academia"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-rise-of-fauxcahontas-increase-in-unsubstantiated-claims-of-native-american-ancestry-have-begun-to-plague-faculties-in-academia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1841814&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/23050601-8e85-4b8e-b233-cb232c554059-1052x615-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The Supreme Court is addressing the issue of affirmative action in admissions. However, perverse incentives have produced a different type of perverse outcome. Last week, College Fix reported about a wave of \u201cPretendians,\u201d Or what we call it \u201cFauxcohontas\u201d Elizabeth Warren: The case of posturing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/fauxcahontas-white-female-scholars-keep-pretending-to-be-native-american\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An increase in Native American ancestry claims that are not supported<\/a> Academia has been plagued by these problems:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>AncestorStealing is a method of preserving the ancestral past.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ancestorstealing.blogspot.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a>\u00a0that has researched and outed a parade of alleged fake Indians, argues it\u2019s done for notoriety, profit and gain: \u201cIt\u2019s all about the money. Wurth has profited greatly from claiming this \u2018Native\u2019 background.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren was ahead of her time when she wrongly claimed to be Native American to get ahead at Harvard University in the 1990s \u2014 a string of white scholars in the last several years have all done the same at their respective universities.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s men in the mix, but many women. Although the trend is spreading beyond academia, artists and other creative professionals are also embracing it. However, academia appears to be ground zero. It\u2019s become so common in recent years terms such as \u201cpretendians\u201d  \u201cfauxcahontas\u201d have now been invented.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yesterday Jennifer Kabbany, editor of College Fix, joined me for a discussion about the article and the rise of unfounded claims. This is a refutation of the College Fix article. \u201cwhite privilege\u201d Argument of CRT-lovers; is it true? Or does affirmative action for hiring create a layer of perverse incentives.<\/p>\n<p>This reminds Jennifer and me of the Rachel Dolezal controversy as well as Academia&#8217;s current philosophy that biological sex is a matter for individual choice. Even eight years ago, I point out, Dolezal justified her posturing as a black woman \u2014 who wound up running a local NAACP chapter in Washington \u2014 because, as she told Matt Lauer, she \u201cidentifies as black.\u201d Did she think she was ahead of her time Is biology irrelevant to sexual identity? Can anybody argue that biology plays a role in ethnicity? If so, what role does biology play in ethnic identity?\u00a0<em>That<\/em> do to the whole structure of affirmative actions in admissions as well as faculty hiring, especially in Academia<\/p>\n<p>This has implications for Native American Tribes and their legal authority in identifying members of their tribes. However, there are also perverse incentives involved in this situation, particularly in the era of tribal-casino. We call him a friend, both of mine and of this site. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.originalpechanga.com\/2015\/07\/uc-riverside-professor-andrea-smith.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Original Pechanga<\/a>As everyone fights for the casino revenue, he has been fighting to stop disenrollment tactics by his tribe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> I neglected to link to OP\u2019s blog, but I\u2019ve added it now.<\/p>\n<p>You should watch every episode of of <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/hotair-tv-ed-morrissey-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Podcast: The Ed Morrissey Show<\/a>Click here to subscribe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court is addressing the issue of affirmative action in admissions. However, perverse incentives have produced a different type of perverse outcome. Last week, College Fix reported about a wave of \u201cPretendians,\u201d Or what we call it \u201cFauxcohontas\u201d Elizabeth Warren: The case of posturing An increase in Native American ancestry claims that are not &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1841817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5967,4123,13164,15610,4856,18255,18257,5476,11737,18256,5319,18254],"class_list":["post-1841814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-academia","tag-american","tag-ancestry","tag-begun","tag-claims","tag-faculties","tag-fauxcahontas","tag-increase","tag-native","tag-plague","tag-rise","tag-unsubstantiated"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1841817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}