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The Genocide That Wasn't: Ward Churchill's Research Fraud Thomas Brown Assistant Professor of Sociology Lamar University Beaumont, TX 77710 browntf at hal.lamar.edu
Abstract:
This is a work in progress that I am making available due to the current interest in Ward Churchill's writings. I show that Churchill has committed research fraud, and very possibly committed perjury as well. This article analyzes Churchill's fabrication of a genocide. Churchill invented a story about the US Army deliberately creating a smallpox epidemic among the Mandan people in 1837 by distributing infected blankets. While there was a smallpox epidemic on the Plains in 1837, it was entirely accidental, the Army wasn't involved, and nearly every element of Churchill's story is a total invention. My goal here was to show how and why Churchill engaged in such blatant fraud, and why no one has challenged him on it until now.