Yesterday I read this fascinating article by Jay Caspian Kang about Elizabeth Hoover (above), a tenured professor of environmental studies at Berkeley who has long identified as Mohawk and M’ikmaq. When her claims to an Indian identity were challenged and she was unable to provide evidence of Indigenous ancestry, the life she had carefully built around …
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