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By Jay Caspian Kang · The New Yorker · February 2024
A Professor Claimed to Be Native American. Did She Know She Wasn’t?
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"Jay Caspian Kang reports on Elizabeth Hoover, a so-called Pretendian who has taught at Brown and Berkeley and who insists that she made an honest mistake. Her critics says she has been lying for more than a decade."

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