It most certainly is a witch hunt, but what is really interesting about it (or would be interesting if I weren't at the center) is that it's impossible to characterize me as a right-winger. In fact, the Indian law community knows me as a far-left radical, which I don't think is entirely true, but I have indeed called for reparations from the U.S. to Indian tribes and even for tribes, in the wake of U.S. v. Lara, to declare independence from the U.S. The real reason for the votes of 5 tenured colleagues not to renew my contract, as best I can tell and based on what little has percolated down to me, was that I defend the war on terror (for reasons of self-determination principally) and won't sign letters in support of Ward Churchill's assertion that the victims of the 9/11 terrorists are the moral equivalents of the architect of the Jewish Shoah. I'm sorry, but that's, in my view, a very hateful and hurtful thing to say. My mom's parents were born as POWs in a U.S. Army prisoner of war camp, and I still love this country. I've actually heard the expression "Clarence Tomahawk" used around the faculty suites. I could shrug this off if I didn't have a disabled wife and a two-year old daughter, but the threat to my livelihood is very troubling.