If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

Churchill may possess eligibility status for Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma since he claims 1/16 Cherokee. Let's Spread the Fun Around. In January 2005 during the controversy over his 9/11 remarks Churchill resigned as chairman of the ethnic studies department at the University of Colorado — his term as chair was scheduled to expire in June of that year.

In January 2005 Churchill's work attracted publicity because of the widespread circulation of a 2001 essay "On the Justice of Roosting Chickens". In November 2010 the Colorado Court of Appeals upheld a lower-court'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. 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".