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May 25, 2021 · “Andrea Smith clearly responded to attacks on her identity by stating that she has always known herself to be Cherokee,” tweeted Nandita Sharma, a professor at the University of Hawaii at ...
- Sarah Viren
Andrea Smith responded to the protests and accusations in July 2015 with a statement on her blog asserting that her "enrollment status does not impact [her] Cherokee identity," and that she always has been and always will be Cherokee.
Jul 11, 2015 · They cannot speak intelligently to the question of her authenticity because they have no baseline, which is why they use diversionary tactics. Why would they know real Cherokees when all they see are fakes? In the 1990s, Andrea Smith sought me out as a Cherokee genealogist, on two separate occasions, to see if she had any connections.
- David Cornsilk
Perhaps one of the reasons this revelation has bothered me is because my doctoral work was a philosophical intervention in anti-colonial theory, an attempt to place marxism and indigenism in dialogue, and so I valued the contributions of thinkers such as Smith.
Jul 17, 2015 · Last week, Indian Country Today Media Network published an open letter, in response to the notoriety surrounding controversial scholar-activist Andrea Smith’s contradictory claims of having Cherokee identity through both enrollment and lineal descent.
Jul 7, 2015 · Smith’s self-acknowledged false claims and lack of clarity on her own identity perpetuate deeply ingrained notions of race—black, white, and Indian—that run counter to indigenous modes of kinship, family, and community connection.
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Aug 27, 2023 · While some Native scholars said the agreement was the first real accountability that Dr. Smith faced for her identity claims, they also lamented that the professor did not acknowledge...
