James Craven
James Craven (Blackfoot Nation), Professor of Economics, Clark College, Vancouver, Washington, says:
Ward [Churchill]’s scholarship is very serious, measured, non-hyperbolic and uses primary sources extensively – in measured and honest ways. As an Indigenous Scholar and activist over almost 40 years, I, like so many others, have stood on the very broad shoulders of the very serious, measured, innovative and daring scholarship of Ward Churchill. Because of the nature of my own scholarship, I have checked primary sourcesc ited by Ward over and over and have never found even one instance of misrepresentation/misuse/over-extrapolation from given sources. As the son of a Blackfoot mother who was a victim of the U.S. Boarding School system, and as someone who has interviewed literally hundreds of Residential/Boarding School survivors – as a Tribunal Judge dealing with Residential School horrors in Canada and as someone designated by Traditional Blackfoot Authorities to help victims prepare for what they will face in ongoing litigation – I can attest that his work in “Kill the Indian, Save the Man” and other works not only added serious scholarship to this issue, but also corresponded directly and consistently with what I have found in my own research and work with the victims . . .
