Another fake Indian ;
The fastest and easiest pathway to success in the USSA is to not be white — particularly in academia, where meaningful standards of appraisal have been rejected in favor of political correctness.
Another example:
Dartmouth
announced that ethnomusicologist Susan Taffe Reed is the new director of the college’s Native American Program, boasting that she is “the president of the Eastern Delaware Nations.”
But the
Eastern Delaware Nations (EDN) is not a federally recognized Native American tribe, it’s a 501(c)(3) that also allows “members [who] are not of Native American descent, but [who] join as social members.” And, after a searing
blog post unearthed alleged death certificates of Taffe’s ancestors that show her family coming to the U.S. from Ireland after the
Indian Removal Act, Native American alumni of the college are protesting the hire on their
Facebook page. Native American media is also
scrutinizing Dartmouth’s decision to hire someone for a student affairs position who seems less than forthcoming about her own heritage. …
In one
biography (PDF), Taffe Reed claims that she is “Turtle Clan and of Delaware, Irish, and German ancestry” and, in
another, she lists herself as “Delaware (Turtle Clan).” In a book chapter, she says that she is “related to Little Beaver.”