How fake news, hoaxes and humbug are about race
(LA Times Dodgers)

In August, PEN Center USA withdrew its prize nomination of John Smelcer´s young-adult novel `Stealing Indians,` citing concerns that Smelcer´s claims to be a member of the Ahtna tribe were fraudulent, and that his writing was, in the words of one critic, `rife with stereotypes and riddled with...