Tonto, the fictional companion of the Lone Ranger, referred to his masked partner as “Kemosabe,” which means “trusted friend.”
It appears fictional Indians can be found in academia as well as on TV. But in the case of a California professor, she can’t be trusted.
Elizabeth Hoover is a University of California, Berkeley, professor who specializes in environmental health and “food justice” in Native American communities. She has claimed to be Native American throughout her career, but there’s one problem — she isn’t.
In her own words, Hoover is a “white person who has incorrectly identified as Native my whole life.” This Ivy League-educated fraud recently apologized to Native Americans for “uncritically living an identity based on family stories without seeking out a documented connection to these communities.”
In layman’s terms, Hoover is not, nor has she ever been, Native American. She is possessed of no indigenous blood and, despite her burning desire, shares no DNA with the original inhabitants of North America.
Terms like Woke and snowflakes have had a short shelf life when compared to the fictional management of Ocean City – City Hall. Decades of fictional management has left the island unfamily friendly, mid week vacancies galore, weekend only functions that now start in mid Apr lasting full throttle until late fall (to raise revenue not captured during the weekday), a creep winking town emblem and still no true strategic planner.
Fiction aside, just plain sad.
why is that considered faking when any female can just say they are male and vice versa, why can’t any of us claim to be anything we want? where does it stop.? truth just doesn’t matter any more in our society overall. Just like real women should stand up to trans claiming to be female. True Indians should stand up to this *sswipe.