'I hurt Native people': UC Berkeley scholar faces uproar after claiming Indigenous heritage

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'I hurt Native people': UC Berkeley scholar faces uproar after claiming Indigenous heritage
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Elizabeth M. Hoover, an associate professor at UC Berkeley, said she has 'incorrectly identified' as a woman of Mohawk and Mi’kmaq descent.

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“I have spent countless hours supporting her current and former students, trying to process my own emotions and having to continue on at an institution that gave her a PhD, her first job and tenure,” she wrote. “Now, without any official documentation verifying the identity I was raised with, I do not think it is right for me to continue to claim to be a scholar of Mohawk / Mi’kmaq descent,” she wrote last year.publicly calling on her to respond to a list of demands including acknowledging the harm she had caused, to stop identifying as a descendant of the tribes and come out as white, to name a few.

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