Professor Minehaha is just the gift that keeps on giving. Now it turns out that he's not just a fake Indian--his "native American artwork" is plagiarized, and in violation of copyright.

Placing Churchill's work beside that of renowned artist Thomas E. Mails and the two look like mirror images. But one is a copyrighted drawing. The other is an autographed print by Churchill...

...Compare it side-by-side to the serigraph by Churchill, created some 20 years later: the composition, the images, the placement are nearly identical.

Intellectual property attorney Jim Hubbell said it's clearly no accident.

"It's very obvious that the Churchill piece was taken directly from the Mails piece," Hubbell said. "There's just too many similarities between the two for it to have been coincidence."

This guy surely is a piece of work. I'd love to seem him stay on as a poster child for everything that's wrong with academia and the tenure system, but it's hard to see how the University of Colorado can keep him on.

[Update a few minutes later]

Michelle Malkin has more, with pictures.

On the other hand, I suspect academia is so messed up because they are unable to get rid of people like Ward Churchill.

As far as the humanities are concerned, there would be no academia left if you got rid of people like Ward Churchill.

Good grief! The first looks like a tracing of the original -- with a bit of color changes and an axis flipping. I could do that with Photoshop or The GIMP in so few minutes it's not funny.

What's that old saying? Sincerity -- when you can fake that, you've got it made.

Well, looks like U of Co is going to buy him out with an early retirement pitch. Fortunately, his lawyer says Churchill would consider such an offer if it is sufficiently ample. :-/

I am amazed at how some on the left embrace this guy. He calls for more violence against innocent civilians, he has shown a penchant for violence against women, he lied about his ethnicity and is a phony artist to boot. Oh, now I see....
And to the anonymous poster who thinks Churchill is good for academia, BECAUSE of people LIKE him, humanities studies is in the sorry state it is today, fraudulent misanthropes posing as stalwart defenders of free speech.

As far as the humanities are concerned, there would be no academia left if you got rid of people like Ward Churchill.

If that were true, it would be the best possible argument for getting rid of people like Wart Churchill.

As it is, the assertion is untrue, because academia remains -- at least theoretically -- salvageable.

I don't think the Anonymous poster meant that we couldn't have academia without people like Ward. I think that he/she meant that, if you got rid of all of the Ward Churchills, there wouldn't be anyone left.