Posted on 04/30/2012 5:40:49 PM PDT by mandaladon
Massachusetts senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren described herself in law-school professional directories as a Native American minority from 1986 to 1995.
The white Democratic candidate has so far offered no evidence that she is, in fact, part Native American, suggesting that she may have falsified that ethnic credential to advance her academic career in the early affirmative-action era. But “it is true,” a Warren spokeswoman told The Daily Caller on Monday, “and we’re working on digging up some sort of evidence to appease you.”
Another Warren spokeswoman shot back at the campaign of incumbent Republican Sen. Scott Brown, whom Warren is challenging for the senate seat once held by the late Ted Kennedy.
“If Scott Brown has questions about Elizabeth Warren’s well-known qualifications — from her high marks as a teacher to her nationally recognized work on bankruptcy and the pressures on middle class families — he ought to ask them directly instead of hiding behind the nasty insinuations of his campaign and trying to score political points,” spokeswoman Mindy Myers said in a statement.
Harvard University’s decision to promote Warren as a minority faculty member brought the issue front-and-center, but the Boston Herald reported Monday that Warren described herself that way when she taught at the University of Texas and the University of Pennsylvania.
American law school directories listed Warren as a minority professor for nine years before Harvard scooped her up, and Harvard apparently used that information to promote her as a minority, the Herald first reported Friday.
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No doubt a member of the Hekawi tribe.
That would likely be the Standing Rock Reservation, which straddles the North and South Dakota borders, south of the N.D. capital city of Bismarck.
Standing Rock is home to some members of the Blackfoot tribe of the Lakotas, as well as those of the Hunkpapa and Yanktonai tribes (and no doubt others too).
I have known (not well) some of Standing Rock tribal members, as my high school team played against theirs years ago.
They were and are fierce, proud, relentless competitors. Their lives aren’t easy these days, but the name of the Standing Rock Sioux still commands respect of those with any knowledge of them.
It is a pleasure to say hello to you here.
OTOH, I might look at the seemingly touching story of your great grandmother, and come to the conclusion that all she wanted was for all of her descendants to eternally attempt to avenge the losses of her ancestors.
But then again, in my family, the hatred ran deep on both sides.
My cousins and I decided it was past time for it all to end. And may of us outlived our grandparents, so it did.
OTOH, I might look at the seemingly touching story of your great grandmother, and come to the conclusion that all she wanted was for all of her descendants to eternally attempt to avenge the losses of her ancestors.
But then again, in my family, the hatred ran deep on both sides.
My cousins and I decided it was past time for it all to end. And as so many of us outlived our grandparents, so it did.
Her family discussions might have been about how so many Indians look like them ~ not the other way around.
Some people pretend to forget that long before the white men came, the tribes warred continuously against each other.
It is the nature of mankind, no matter our race.
With about 50 years of effort I was able to pin down the very tribe most of them had to originate in ~ and all without immigration records ~ they got here just too darned soon for that.
That photo of great grandmother in tribal regalia will go a long way towards assisting her distant ancestors in getting in touch.
she must be part of the “Fagare” tribe.....
We da Fukawee ... We da Fukawee ...
Where the Fugowee ?
Stands With Fist Full of Droppings
Her maiden name was Herring, so some around here are calling her Red Herring...
Boston TV is reporting that a local geneologist discovered that her great-great-great grandmother was an Indian. Does it justify her minority status? That makes her 1/64 Indian, I think.
I guess if you go back far enough, she was also related to Adam and Eve.
So a Latino who looks sort of white is ‘white’ but a white woman who looks totally white...is a native Indian...ok got it. ;)
I on the other hand have traced my roots back beyond the founding of this nation.
Ed
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