Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 51. Chapters: Leonard Peltier, Ward Churchill, Anna Mae Aquash, Wounded Knee incident, Russell Means, Dick Wilson, Clyde Bellecourt, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Pura Fé, John Trudell, Dennis Banks, Bureau of Indian Affairs building takeover, Jimmie Durham, Trail of Broken Treaties, Vernon Bellecourt, Robert Robideau, Raymond Yellow Thunder, Red Power movement, Beatrice Long Visitor Holy Dance, Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance, Glenn T. Morris, AIM Song, Incident at Oglala, American Indian Movement of Colorado, Lakota Freedom Movement. Excerpt: Ward LeRoy Churchill (born October 2, 1947) is an author and political activist. He was a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1990 to 2007. The primary focus of his work is on the historical treatment of political dissenters and Native Americans by the United States government. His work features controversial and provocative views, written in a direct, often confrontational style. In January 2005, Churchill's work attracted publicity because of the widespread circulation of a 2001 essay, "On the Justice of Roosting Chickens". In the essay, he claimed that the September 11, 2001 attacks were a natural and unavoidable consequence of what he views as unlawful US policy, and he referred to the "technocratic corps" working in the World Trade Center as "little Eichmanns". In March 2005 the University of Colorado began investigating allegations that Churchill had engaged in research misconduct; it reported in June 2006 that he had done so. Churchill was fired on July 24, 2007, leading to a claim by some scholars that he was fired over the ideas he expressed. Churchill filed a lawsuit against the University of Colorado for unlawful termination of employment. In April 2009 a Denver jury found that Churchill was wrongly fired, awarding him $1 in damages. In July, 2009, a District Court judge vacated the monetary award and declined Churchill's request to order his reinstatement, deciding the university has "quasi-judicial immunity". In February, 2010, Churchill appealed the judge's decision. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, "The Colorado Court of Appeals has upheld a lower-court judge's ruling that the University of Colorado officials sued by Ward Churchill were immune from his lawsuit accusing them of violating his First Amendment rights when they dismissed him as a tenured ethnic-studies professor on the Boulder campus, the Denver Post reported." Churchill was born in Urbana, Illinois to Jack LeRoy Churchill and Maralyn Lu