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Edwin Rios

US professor apologizes after wrongly claiming to be Native American

The University of California, Berkeley, where Hoover works.
The University of California, Berkeley, where Elizabeth Hoover works. Photograph: Eric Risberg/AP

A University of California at Berkeley anthropologist known for her work on food justice in Native American communities is under fire after she long claimed she was Indigenous and has conceded that she is in fact white – fueling calls for her resignation.

Elizabeth Hoover, who was hired as an associate professor in 2000 researching Native American food sovereignty, published a letter of apology on her personal website earlier this week.

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