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Ward Churchill

Ward Churchill

American author and activist; longtime professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado Boulder (1990–2007). Co-founder of the Colorado chapter of the American Indian Movement and a leading scholar of Native American history, federal Indian policy, and the FBI's COINTELPRO campaigns. Co-author with Jim Vander Wall of "Agents of Repression" (1988) and "The COINTELPRO Papers" (1990) — foundational primary-source compilations on the federal war against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement. Dismissed from CU Boulder in 2007 in a politically-driven termination following his post-9/11 essay "Some People Push Back."

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Publications Third World at Home: Political Prisons and Prisoners in the United States.
Introduction—The Third World at Home: Political Prisons and Prisoners in the United States I have heard people refer to the ‘criminal countenance.’ I never saw one. Any man or woma...