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By Mark Easton
image captionTony Hall arriving to take up the post of BBC director general in 2013
This is a crisis that goes to the heart of the BBC s DNA - the values of integrity and fairness that underpin its reputation around the world.
The deceit may go back a quarter of a century, but there are unanswered questions that carry huge jeopardy for the corporation today.
In his first speech after taking over as director general after the Jimmy Savile scandal, Lord Hall addressed the culture of the BBC. No organisation as big as this one can avoid making mistakes, he said.
TAHLEQUAH â Claims made about Native American culture by a political commentator and former Pennsylvania senator sparked widespread ire, and according to Cherokee Nation leaders, highlight the need to âpick up the burden ourselves to educate on who we are.â
âThereâs no need to have a talking head on a major network trying to pick on Native Americans as though we donât matter,â said Kimberly Teehee, CN Government Relations director and the tribeâs congressional delegate nominee. âWe know we matter, and we know we have real, legal relationships with the United States and that we have real, tangible things that flow from who we are as tribes and as governments, and we have contributed greatly to the fabric of this country.â