Posted on 04/30/2012 7:06:16 AM PDT by Qbert
Elizabeth Warren said yesterday she is proud of her Native American heritage and indicated she had no problem with Harvard Law School using her roots to claim her as a diversity hire, but her campaign still could not produce documents proving her lineage.
I am very proud of my Native American heritage, thank you, said Warren when asked if she disapproved of the school counting her as a minority woman on the faculty. These are my family stories ... This is our lives and I am very proud of that.
The Herald reported yesterday that Harvard Law School officials listed Warren as Native American in the 90s, when the school was under fierce fire for their facultys lack of diversity.
Warren, who will likely face off with U.S. Sen. Scott Brown this fall, said she didnt know the school has counted her as a minority faculty member until I read it on the front page of the Herald.
Her campaign said yesterday it is still working to produce documents proving that the 62-year-old Oklahoma native, whose maiden name is Herring, is a descendent of the Delaware and Cherokee tribes.
They said the Delaware Tribe that Warren is from had become assimilated, and because of that there is lax record-keeping.
Warren, who said she was told through family lore that her maternal parents were from the Cherokee and Delaware tribes, said she could not recall ever listing her Native American background when applying for college or a job.
Chris Miller, a secretary with the Delaware Tribe in Oklahoma, said he could not find Elizabeth Herring or Elizabeth Warren listed in the tribes official records.
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her campaign still could not produce documents proving her lineage.
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No credible hereditary society will accept her without those proofs...
Shes not until she produces them..
“The Cherkee kept very good records. I am only 1/64 & can trace back to 1750. If her family didnt enroll or were not on any Indian census she most definitely is not qualified to be a diversity hire, no matter how many stories she heard!”
Yep. She apparently was also claiming minority status as a professor at other schools even before she was hired at Harvard:
http://volokh.com/2012/04/28/elizabeth-warren-herself-claimed-minority-status/
“CHEROKEE PEOPLE....CHEROKEE PRIDE....”
What a great rhetorical question.
A worthy dream...
Unless I see a black and white wedding picture of a honky and a squaw - I ain't buying it!
Shucks! I was thinking maybe Herring was one of those animal names like "Running Bear" or "Crazy Horse"--something like that--maybe Warren had something to do with rabbits.
Anyway, she could claim that as evidence. The press will back her up. Even "discover new evidence" to prove the Tribes wrong.
Elizabeth's not worried. She knows as well as anybody that the Left doesn't give a flip about truth; so the whole exposé is red herring.
Exposure of a forked-tongue never interfered with a Leftist powwow.
Massachusetts is like Arkansas. ('Scuse me, Arkansas.) (I couldn't resist knowing how much Massachusetts Leftists would hate the comparison.)
Remember when the reporter told that Arkansas woman that Clinton had had an affair. And she said: "I don't believe it." And the reporter said: "But he has admitted it." And the woman said: "I still don't believe it."
Truth is of no interest to the Left.
Much as they love to deny it--what they care about is WAMPUM!
About 20-30 years ago, my two stepsons received a check from the federal government because their names were on the Delaware tribal role. So the Delawares also keep pretty good records.
It’s easy enough to believe she’s a “Native American” as am I. Descended from Indian tribes? Another story altogether.
Shes not until she produces them..
...and yet Zer0 is still "President.".........(sigh)
I got one for my family. Black and white photo of a methodist minister and a full blooded Cherokee squaw on a covered wagon. They both look mean as snakes too!
The vast majority of those making a vague claim of vague Native American ancestry don't seem to have one wit of evidence.
They apparently belong to the Wardahoe tribe like Proff. Churchill.
Warren is a fraud to claim that she is proud of a heritage that may not exist and which she has not researched. The resources to do that research are readily available.
The lore in the family of my ex-wife is that the fellow that took them through the Gap circa 1820 was the half-breed son of a man who eventually became the head of the Cherokee nation. After much research, the only evidence I found that would support that claim were pictures of an ancestor of my daughters who certainly seemed to have Native American blood based solely upon her appearance and a reference online to writings by the pioneer himself that apparently claim that heritage. The various censuses and rolls of the Cherokee do not support it. I tend to doubt it, because the Chief would have had to have been about 14 years old at the time of the pioneer's conception. On the other hand, people were very precocious in those days, and one of the Chief's many acknowledged children did bear a name identical to that of that of the pioneer. So, who really knows what happened so many years ago?
I wonder if that's a reporter's blunder, or if Prof. Warren really said "maternal parents."
That “family lore” thingy...
There are people who will say a great aunt said they were directly descended from George Washington...
Now since there would be lots of prestige and lots of societies that one can belong to who wouldnt like that ???
But then they want someone else to find them the proof..
Well of course there is none...
George Washington never had any children of his own...
He married Martha a widow with 2 children..
The line would go up from John Parke Custis the one child who had children not to George but to that dead husband and father Daniel Custis, and to his ancestors...
As in this case, whoever is in the direct bloodline ...
and I dont know of many Native Americans who havent proven their lineage...
We’re talking about a rich educated family who would have no reason not to have knowledge of their forebears and have some documentation or other...
HEY !!!
even 1/16 is only back 4 generations..
one of her great great grandparents would be Cherokee or Delaware etc...
Since shes 62 that ancestor would have been living about the time of the Civil War
Maybe he/she lived till 1900
How hard would documentation be to find ???
Im sure Who Do You Think You Are? would love to take a crack at this for her...
Heres a thought too...
If her parent or grandparent were a proven member of a tribe she wouldnt have to go back that far to the original full blooded Cherokee...
I’m a Native American too. I was born here - that makes me a native to America. I’ll start putting that on all my offical documents from now on.
I fell prey to it myself - thinking my paternal great grandmother was half Blackfoot based upon family lore.
Then I saw a picture of my paternal Grandfather's mother - and she was about as German looking a Fraulein as I had ever seen.
I was sent some old family apocrypha that contained one single reference about one of my ancestors having "indian" antecedents. I felt it unlikely that there were a lot of Native American women surnamed "Jones" in 1820s/1830s Ohio, but if all it takes is wishful thinking, well...
Mr. (possibly "Chief") niteowl77
I didn't realize that. I should look into their records someday. It's never been clear if the Cherokee woman introduced to my father as his grandmother was, in fact, a blood relative or a woman his grandfather had later taken as a wife. We don't have family records from that branch beyond perhaps two photos of his parents. They were too rural, too poor, too lacking in education.
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