Cherokee Queer News Today

On her first day of class, Yola Gomez, a first-year Ph.D. student at Oregon State University, was inundated with claims about mistreatment towards minority students by a professor in OSU’s Women Gender and Sexuality Studies program.  The alleged mistreatment was by Associate Professor Qwo-Li Driskill, who recently made headlines of false claims of Indigenous identity. ...

The Tribal Alliance Against Frauds says Qwo-Li Driskill is lying when they claim Indigenous ancestry. Another professor stands accused of being a “pretendian” who has falsely claimed Indigenous ancestry and passed themselves off as an expert in native culture and history.