OT: The Perfesser's favorite religion demands teacher's tenure be, um,

Dunno how we missed this, but In advocating the complete return of First Nations land, Churchill argued that First Nations should be given complete sovereignty over their land. While Churchill said that every indigenous group would have the ability to decide how to deal with ‘settlers’, he felt that most would deal with non-Natives in a way similar to current governments.

“There is no reason in the world why a non-indigenous…could not be nationalised as a citizen within a sovereign indigenous government—that’s the prerogative of any government…There’s no reason why, short of that, you [settlers] couldn’t be landed immigrants or have some kind of green card status. The only real change we’re talking about here in all probability is that the jurisdiction changes and you’re living under Native law…what’s so shocking about that?”

Nothing, we guess. But we've been reading Warchill's stuff for a long time now, and nothing much shocks us anymore. Later:

“The lesson plans for Native kids in the school system are no different than the lesson plans for everyone else, so they’re being trained to see themselves through the lens of a society that has despised Native people so much that they wanted to utterly eradicate it—tells you something about what they’ll be walking out with in terms of self-esteem and self-concept. That’s the genocidal process.”Here's an idle question: What human activity, exactly, isn't the genocidal process?

CNews 24November07

Elisa Facio, newly-minted director of CU's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race in America (CSERA),