Ward Churchill Solidarity Network

Howard Zinn

I note that aside from the controversy over specific statements Ward Churchill has made with regard to 9-11, there have also been questions raised about his scholarship.  I am aware of his writings on native American history, and I have found them to be assiduously researched, making important contributions to a much-neglected part of this nation’s history. It is interesting that, with all his years of writing books and articles, it is only after his controversial statements about 9-ll, that there suddenly arise questions about his scholarship. Thissuggests political motivations rather than real concerns about the quality of his work.

Blurbing Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader (2003), Zinn also says:

Ward Churchill is one of our most powerful chroniclers of Indian history – both of the sorry record of the United States government and the extraordinary resistance of the Indian people to policies of removal and annihilation.  Each one of his books is an education in itself.