What is it about?
Academia’s support for neo-indigenes is a significant component of their professional success. I describe how this support operates, drawing a model of cahooting from Edward Dolnick’s analysis of art forgery in The Forger’s Spell. Cahooting reflects the importance of social relationships to the construction of perceived truth and virtue. It corrupts academia at multiple levels through these relationships, undermining the pursuit of truth and goals of equity and inclusion.
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Why is it important?
The article documents ongoing colonial practices that undermine the pursuit of truth and institutional goals of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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This article reflects my more than four decades of experience with self-indigenizing people (neo-Indians) and the scholars who falsely promote them.
Brian Haley
State University of New York College at Oneonta
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This page is a summary of: In Cahoots with Neo-Indigenism, Genealogy, August 2024, MDPI AG,
DOI: 10.3390/genealogy8030099.
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