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Article: HERITAGE, WRITINGS SPLIT INDIAN ACTIVISTS.(News)

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February 12, 2005
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Byline: Kevin Flynn, Rocky Mountain News

Staff writers David Montero and Charlie Brennan contributed to this

report.

If you think Ward Churchill is controversial in his academic setting, you should see how divisive a force he is in the Indian world.

The University of Colorado professor, who has set off a firestorm with the publicizing of his 3-year-old essay rationalizing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, has been a lightning rod for years among those involved in American Indian arts, academics and activism.

He simultaneously inspires great admiration and loathing.

"He is horribly divisive, and he is a thug," said Suzan ...

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