The controversy surrounding anthropologist Elizabeth Hoover has sparked calls for her resignation and concerns among her students and Native American scholars about UC Berkeley’s academic int…
For much of Hoover’s career, going back to the 2000s, she told people she descended from the Mohawk and Mi’kmaq peoples of eastern Canada and the United States. She referenced this ancestry in news accounts and while researching herMeanwhile, she won prestigious jobs, grants and fellowships, published books and papers and became a mover and shaker in the “food sovereignty” movement, according to the news site,.
The call for Hoover to resign first came in November after she issued an initial statement about her identity. At that time, she made no apology but explained that her background included family lore about great-grandmothers who were Mohawk and Mi’kmaq. Her mother also took her and her sisters to powwows to connect them with their heritage. But last year, Hoover said she and others concluded that they couldn’t verify any ties to the groups she claimed to belong to.
But Hoover’s apology or talk of making amends has not silenced those who believe she should resign or be dismissed. “The waves of harm extending from this are immense and difficult to even capture,”Adrienne Keene, an assistant professor in American studies at Brown University, author of the online forum Native Appropriations and former close friend and colleague of Hoover.
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