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University of Colorado investigative committee report on Ward Churchill, 2006

The committee's report of 16 May 2006 on seven allegations of research misconduct, including the Fort Clark smallpox claim.

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    The committee said it was making no judgment on his broader historical claims. It found some basis for the general claim in early accounts and oral traditions, no evidence for several details, and misconduct in how he supported it. It also concluded that the Secretary of War excluded the Mandan and the upper Missouri tribes from the 1832 vaccination program.

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  1. 16 May 2006 University of Colorado investigative committee report on Ward Churchill, 2006
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  1. Report of the Investigative Committee of the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct at the University of Colorado at Boulder concerning Allegations of Academic Misconduct against Professor Ward Churchill, University of Colorado Boulder, 16 May 2006. Primary record Archived copy
    We do not find academic misconduct with respect to his general claim that the U.S. Army deliberately spread smallpox to Mandan Indians at Fort Clark in 1837, using infected blankets.
    Early accounts of what was said by Indians involved in that situation and certain native oral traditions provide some basis for that interpretation.
    That infected blankets were taken from a military infirmary in St. Louis.
    the U.S. Secretary of War deliberately and reprehensibly excluded the Mandan and all other tribes of the upper Missouri River from the Indian vaccination program of 1832.
    Pearson describes the measure passed by Congress on May 5, 1832 ordering vaccination of Indian tribes.
    We therefore find by a preponderance of the evidence a pattern of deliberate academic misconduct involving falsification, fabrication, and serious deviation from accepted practices in reporting results from research.
    Report of the Investigative Committee of the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct at the University of Colorado at Boulder concerning Allegations of Academic Misconduct against Professor Ward Churchill
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