Last week, Professor Elizabeth Hoover published a letter admitting she is “a white person” and apologizing for falsely identifying as a Native American, something she said she did based on family lore.
, did not immediately respond Sunday to a request for comment from The Washington Post. She remains on staff at the university.in which she first addressed the controversy about her identity, Hoover said she grew up believing that she descended from the Mohawk and Mi’kmaq. That belief grew out of family stories, specifically her mother recounting that Hoover’s grandmother was a Mohawk woman who married a French Canadian man who was abusive and an alcoholic.
“She took my sisters and me to ceremonies and powwows as kids to connect us to our heritage,” she wrote in October. “For us, being dancers, and being invited into sweats was a way to connect with and contribute to this broader community.”Hoover’s father’s family claimed that his grandmother was Mi’kmaq, a connection she and her sisters were proud of but “never quite as close to.
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