On her first day of class, Yola Gomez, a first-year Ph.D. student at Oregon State University, was inundated with claims about mistreatment towards minority students by a professor in OSU’s Women Gender and Sexuality Studies program. The alleged mistreatment was by Associate Professor Qwo-Li Driskill, who recently made headlines of false claims of Indigenous identity. .
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The Tribal Alliance Against Frauds says Qwo-Li Driskill is lying when they claim Indigenous ancestry. Another professor stands accused of being a “pretendian” who has falsely claimed Indigenous ancestry and passed themselves off as an expert in native culture and history.