University of California, Riverside, professor resigns after colleagues alleged her Cherokee heritage claims were fraudulent. She had remained employed in academe despite years of denunciations. Andrea Smith has been publicly criticized for her contested claims of Cherokee heritage for at least 15 years. Despite this, she remained employed as a prominent Native American studies scholar.
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For her entire life and in her professional career, based on family members’ accounts, Elizabeth Hoover said she was a Native American. a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, admitted last week that she is white, contrary to her prior claims throughout her life that she was Native American. Elizabeth M. Hoover, an associate professor of environmental science, policy and management, published a long personal essay on her website.
Berkeley professor Elizabeth Hoover apologizes for identifying as an Indigenous person. The upstate New York native said she was raised with misgivings about her ancestry.