Of course it is, but who's going to challenge her claim?
The MSM?
The GOPe?
I’m half Cherokee myself and it pissed me off.
Here’s what Native Americans have had to say about the issue.
She’s not really Native American.
“Elizabeth Warren is as close to her Indian ancestors as I am to my 19th Century Russian furtrapping great-grandfather.”
- Author and filmmaker Sherman Alexie, who grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and is of Coeur d’Alene, Colville, Flathead, Spokane and white descent, in a tweet
Warren’s claims were disrespectful.
“It’s cowardly to ride the coattails of people who have lost so much for your own benefit and not accomplish what you can accomplish on your own benefits. I think it’s shameful and extremely disrespectful not just to Cherokees but to all tribes who have given so much to this country historically and lost so much.”
- Ali Sacks, a Cherokee woman who traveled to Massachusetts to criticize Warren, in an article in the Boston Herald
It was inappropriate if she used it to get ahead.
I think if she used it just to get some kind of advantage — whatever it was — like a job application or something, then that’s probably not appropriate. ... If you have nothing to do with Indians at all — never — except to try to get some unfair advantage, then I think there’s an ethical question in that. ... I don’t know if Mrs. Warren did that or not. Maybe not.”
Former U.S. Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colo.), a member of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe, in an interview with The Daily Caller