Ward Churchill

Churchill may possess eligibility status for Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma since he claims 1/16 Cherokee. Let's Spread the Fun Around. In January 2005 during the controversy over his 9/11 remarks Churchill resigned as chairman of the ethnic studies department at the University of Colorado — his term as chair was scheduled to expire in June of that year.

In January 2005 Churchill's work attracted publicity because of the widespread circulation of a 2001 essay "On the Justice of Roosting Chickens". In November 2010 the Colorado Court of Appeals upheld a lower-court's ruling that the University of Colorado officials sued by Ward Churchill were immune from his lawsuit accusing them of violating his First Amendment rights when they dismissed him as a tenured ethnic-studies professor. In the essay he claimed that the September 11 2001 attacks were a natural and unavoidable consequence of what he views as unlawful US policy and he referred to the "technocratic corps" working in the World Trade Center as "little Eichmanns".