Ward Churchill's Indian Ancestry Confirmed!
2005-09-18
Posted by: badanov
If you followed the link and read any part of the post you will realize this guy was hired as a sports columnist. Unbelievable, but true, yet in his wandering from the “reservation” of sports writing, he manages to do great credit to Colorado's only REAL Indian, Ward Churchill.
In the writer's arduous attempt to discredit the Redskins team name, he actually found Ward Churchill's long lost Indian past.
Quoting from TFA:
The team got its name in 1933 from the late owner George Preston Marshall. He wanted to pay tribute to the Indian ancestry of his coach at the time, William "Lone Star" Dietz. But a revealing story published two weeks ago in the Baltimore Sun, which focuses on new research by a California multicultural studies professor, discredits Dietz. Turns out he was a white man "who began taking on an Indian identity as a teenager and ultimately seized the past of a vanished Lakota tribesman and made it his own." The coach was convicted of misrepresenting his identity on military draft documents. So there was no American Indian for which the team was named, just a perpetuated stereotype of the time.
Brings tears to your eyes doesn't it? Ward, we are soo happy for you finding a link to your Indian past. Now, maybe you can keep your job.
To the Washington Post: About that “sports writer:” He sounds like Ward Churchill does before you accept Churchill's really an Indian. Really.
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