May 16, 2006 9:57 am US/Mountain
CU Professor Hit With Another Allegation
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) ―
Embattled University of Colorado ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill has been hit with another allegation of research misconduct.
A University of Minnesota faculty member said Churchill used one of her photos in a publication without permission. She added that the caption he wrote for it exaggerated the facts.
Brenda Child, a member of the Red Lake Ojibwa tribe, published the picture of a child's grave in a 1998 award-winning book on Indian boarding schools. She said Churchill used the same photo without permission and wrote a caption saying half of the children at such schools died. Child calls that a tremendous exaggeration and said no historian has an accurate estimate of the true number of deaths.
The new allegation comes as CU's standing committee on research misconduct prepares to release a report on its investigation of Churchill on charges including falsifying data or misrepresenting historical facts in his scholarly work. The report could be released Tuesday or Wednesday.
Child didn't file a complaint.
Churchill's 2004 book on Indian boarding schools credits Child for the photo and cites her book as a source in 15 footnotes. Child said those attributions were correct and the quotations were accurate.
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