The Trials of Ward Churchill

Ward Churchill is suing to get his job and tenure back at the University of Colorado in Boulder. You can read the day to day accounts of the trial on Race to the Bottom.

If Ward loses this trial and all appeals, what this will effectively do is put a poison pill into his body of work and it will no longer be able to be referenced in any papers. In the regular mainstream, your average moron American who says that Ward is rewriting history will dismiss any references from his work out of hand.

Now, given that Ward's vast amount of work challenges the status quo, and the works of frauds like Carlos Castenada will still be able to be referenced as scientific fact, one has to wonder about the U.S. alleged education system.

Should Ward lose, this will also impart fear into any academics who think to speak out against the status quo. Especially those who have an honest eye for history and current events that are just starting in their careers because they can easily and quickly be oppressed, where as the well established, like Noam Chomsky, are much harder to shut up.

In "Fantasies of the Master Race," Ward points out the VAST amount of discrepencies in literature, science, and film about Indians by non-Indians. Many of the anthropologists Ward critiques are amazing in the fact that the alleged science of anthropology should probably be completely overhauled considering its lack of scientific method.

Also revealing was his critique of Carlos Castenada's body of work. Ward points out that it was the biggest scientific fraud since Piltdown Man. Piltdown Man was the few bones dug up in England around 1915 proving that the white race was the first race. These bones were interred and not allowed to be viewed until the 1950's. In the mid-30's, however, Louis Leakey got to view casts of the bones. He stated that a few looked like orangutan, but agreed with his fellow scientists not to discuss his findings in public.

Castaneda, whose body of work has been heavily critiqued by many, including the Yaqui people, is still considered a referencable body of material. The only ONLY substantiation that Carlos had were his field notes, which when requested, were found to have been destroyed in a flood in his basement. Carlos Castenada's work, complete without reference, field notes, photos, or any other SUBSTANTIATING evidence will still be able to be referenced in the alleged science of anthropolgy.

Ward Churchill, whose HEAVILY notated works could stand to be completely shut down if he loses this trial.

Ward is a fella who uses much academic notation and knowledge. He heavily substantiates his work. Carlos Castenada work has been proven to be fraudulent. Ward Churcill's body of work will no longer be able to be referenced should he lose this case and any appeals. Carlos Castenada's work, however, will still stand the scrutinies (OK, in Carolos' case, no tests are done) of alleged academic standards.

Why, you may ask? Ward's work challenges the status quo. The master. Carlos' work does not. Carlos work is tame and a fun read for those who do not want to understand the REAL issues effecting Native Americans, but want to feel good about themselves.

Keep an eye on this trial, folks. Ward is being challenged not because of his body of work being fraudulent, like that of Carlos Castenada, because it isn't. He is being challenged because his work challenges the lies the status quo holds itself up by. The status quo, you will see, will never attack fraudulent works like those of Castaneda, because his work, though fraudulent, successfully distracts the non-Native public about what is really going on with Native peoples.