Elizabeth Warren’s drop of Cherokee blood

Legal Insurrection ^ | May 1, 2012 | William A. Jacobson

[sheana]

We don’t even know what kind of native American my great grandfather was. He died when my grandmother was young. He was from Kentucky and there are still a bunch of folks there with his last name so we may be able to track it. No one has ever tried very hard.

[12chachacha]

So Obama is sixteen times more white than she is Indian

[WOSG]

That’s funny.

She 3% indian and 97% 1%er.

[mikrofon]

My wife is 1/16th Mohawk, fully matrilineally, which she once mentioned qualifies her as a tribal member by their reckoning (plus our daughter).

Then again, when she gets a nosebleed she’s out of the tribe....

[vetvetdoug]

At some colleges proving one has Native American ancestry up to 1/64th qualifies for a Native American scholarship. I checked into it for a friend once. Some colleges have scholarships for Native Americans that go unclaimed yearly.

[RedMDer]

[Hotlanta Mike]

[Ditto]

This is really funny in our race obsessed culture.

Yep. It's way past time to stop this crap and go back to MLK talking about quality of character as opposed to color of skin.

From what I can see, this Warren person is a 'fail' on the character issue. It makes no difference who her g-g-g grandmother was. She's a pretender.

[Kenny Bunk]

How dare you suggest that Giovanni Buffalo Mozzarella is not a true Native American!

Not only that, he cared about our Mother Earth as part of his Native American religion, non hai capito? His mother was, btw, famous for her three-meat meatballs, (Antelope, Bear, and Deer)

[familyop]

Probably millions of those of us descended from Americans of many generations are part Cherokee. ...more injun in me than her, but I don’t try to use it to get money. People should give up obsessions with ethnicity other than classic American identity.

[Qbert]

“Do we even know if that great-great-great-grandmother was “full-blooded” Cherokee?”

Good point.

[Pilsner]

Tiger Woods has 4 times as much Native American blood as does Warren, and Bruce Lee had eight times as much German blood, as she does Native American.

[wetgundog]

“Or, she might have been a gypsy ~ or a mulatto ~ or whatever.”

Elizabeth Warren might be a “black” Caucasian. We know for sure she’s a stinking DemoRAT.

[Osage Orange]

I am of some Potawatomi blood. It's said my great grandfather was a full blood...but told all his kids to not claim Indian blood.

Nevertheless...my grandmother and her siblings...all "look" Indian. My mom "looks" Indian too...I do not...nor do my kids.

But we are all enrolled Potawatomi's....Both my kids took advantage of college monies from our tribe. It helped out a lot.

FWIW-

[WKUHilltopper]

She may be 1/32 Cherokee, but she’s 100% POS.

[bjorn14]

[Her Indian name is Spouting Bull]

More like Shitting Bull.

[alnick]

This is interesting, because I have exactly the same percentage Cherokee ancestry as Elizabeth Warren. a

So do I, by my great-great-great grandmother. :-)