DenverPost.com - Tribe shifts stand, acknowledges Churchill's alleged Cherokee ancestry

The tribe involved is the United Keetowah Band of Cherokee. And to be fair, Ward Churchill has never consistently stood by any claim stronger than having an "associate membership" in that sub-tribe.

I don't pretend to know what's going on here. Perhaps the UKB officials are divided--some of them like Ward Churchill and some don't. But if they want to stand by that man, then they risk drawing down upon themselves the same odium that Churchill himself has earned with his gratuitous insults to the country--his country, whether he likes it or not, or even whether he acknowledges it or not.