{"id":55558,"date":"2018-01-22T01:21:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T01:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55558"},"modified":"2018-01-22T01:21:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T01:21:50","slug":"elizabeth-warrens-native-american-problem-goes-beyond-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55558","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Warren\u2019s Native American problem goes beyond politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth Warren\u2019s Native American problem goes beyond politics<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Boston Globe<\/a>
\n2018-01-19<\/p>\n

Annie Linskey<\/strong><\/a>, Chief national correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nKeith Bedford\/Globe Staff<\/em>
\nSenator Elizabeth Warren<\/a> says now, as she has from the first days of her public life, that she based her assertions about her heritage on her reasonable trust in what she was told about her ancestry as a child.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

WASHINGTON<\/a> \u2014 There\u2019s a ghost haunting Elizabeth Warren<\/a> as she ramps up for a possible 2020 presidential bid and a reelection campaign in Massachusetts this year: her enduring and undocumented claims of Native American ancestry.<\/p>\n

Warren says now, as she has from the first days of her public life, that she based her assertions on family lore, on her reasonable trust in what she was told about her ancestry as a child.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know who I am,\u201d she said in a recent interview with the Globe.<\/p>\n

But that self-awareness may not be enough, as her political ambitions blossom. She\u2019s taken flak from the right for years as a \u201cfake Indian,\u201d including taunts from President Trump<\/a>, who derisively calls her \u201cPocahontas<\/a>.\u2019\u2019 That clamor from the right will only grow with her increasing prominence…<\/p>\n

…Warren\u2019s family has ties to Oklahoma<\/a> dating from the end of the 19th century \u2014 before it was a state. Oklahoma is now home to more than 35 federally recognized tribes, and it\u2019s common for people there to claim Native American ancestry, often based on little more than family mythology. That\u2019s partially because there is, for some, a certain mystique in popular culture associated with American Indian ties and many families liked to include those ties in their lore.<\/p>\n

But claiming Native blood without evidence cuts to the very core of Native American identity because it usurps the rights American Indians have to define their own people and nations, according to native advocates.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem with Elizabeth Warren is she is not the average wannabe<\/a>,\u201d said David Cornsilk<\/a>, a Cherokee<\/a> historian and genealogist. \u201cShe is an academic. She has a higher level of aptitude to examine these issues. And a higher responsibility to examine them, and accept the research that is done, or to counter it with alternative research.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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