{"id":55894,"date":"2018-03-16T01:05:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T01:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55894"},"modified":"2018-03-16T01:05:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T01:05:50","slug":"why-elizabeth-warrens-refusal-to-take-a-dna-test-to-prove-native-american-ancestry-was-probably-a-smart-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55894","title":{"rendered":"Why Elizabeth Warren\u2019s refusal to take a DNA test to prove Native American ancestry was probably a smart move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/social-issues\/why-elizabeth-warrens-refusal-to-take-a-dna-test-to-prove-native-american-ancestry-might-have-been-a-smart-move\/2018\/03\/13\/071ed2fe-26fd-11e8-874b-d517e912f125_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Why Elizabeth Warren\u2019s refusal to take a DNA test to prove Native American ancestry was probably a smart move<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2018-03-14<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TaraBahrampour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tara Bahrampour<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/c\/embed\/fecf3a86-11c5-11e8-a68c-e9374188170e\" width=\"480\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elizabeth_Warren\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sen. Elizabeth Warren<\/a> (D-Mass.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/wp\/2018\/03\/11\/elizabeth-warren-rejects-dna-test-to-settle-native-american-heritage-claim\/?utm_term=.fc3f44b94067\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rejected a call<\/a> this week by a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massachusetts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Massachusetts<\/a> newspaper to take a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genetic_testing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DNA test<\/a> to prove her Native American heritage, saying it is a cherished piece of family lore and noting that she has never used it to get ahead.<\/p>\n<p>She might also add that such a test may not prove anything \u2014 or at least it couldn\u2019t establish the absence of Native American ancestry her critics might be hoping to find.<\/p>\n<p>If Warren were to take one of the widely available commercial \u201cspit tests\u201d and DNA related to a Native American tribe showed up, she would have positive proof that her family stories are true.<\/p>\n<p>But if no such DNA were evident, that would not mean she didn\u2019t have Native American ancestry&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/social-issues\/why-elizabeth-warrens-refusal-to-take-a-dna-test-to-prove-native-american-ancestry-might-have-been-a-smart-move\/2018\/03\/13\/071ed2fe-26fd-11e8-874b-d517e912f125_story.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) rejected a call this week by a Massachusetts newspaper to take a DNA test to prove her Native American heritage, saying it is a cherished piece of family lore and noting that she has never used it to get ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8,3015,26,20],"tags":[28158,10647,11016,3712,25303,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-55894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-politics","category-usa","tag-ann-turner","tag-elizabeth-warren","tag-kim-tallbear","tag-massachusetts","tag-tara-bahrampour","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55895,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55894\/revisions\/55895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}