Couldn’t a DNA swab test that can be purchased at any drug store nowadays settle the warren is an American indian issue once and for all?
I don’t know about the DNA but that would not be an acceptable solution to me. Many, many people have Native American DNA, that does not make them legally Native American.
In order to claim to be Native American in order to use any benefit, including preference for government contracts one has to be enrolled in a tribe. She needs to show she is enrolled as a member of the Cherokee tribe, that is easy enough to prove. She either is or isn’t; which at this point we all know she is not. So she has no business claiming she is Cherokee. Her new story is she has Cherokee ancestry, which is different than claiming to be a Cherokee.
Tons of people including me can claim Cherokee ancestry, I have an ancestor on the final Rolls, many just have family stories. Neither one is enough to be able to honestly use it for any gain, including educational, or political. To rightfully claim you are Cherokee you need to be enrolled as a tribal member.
If she has not lied on government documents she has likely done nothing wrong legally in spouting off about being a Cherokee. To me she has used it to further her political ambitions so morally that is very wrong. Goes straight to her honesty, means she is outright dishonest.
The problem is since when have the dims cared about morals or honesty when it comes to a dim candidate?
You can bet your bippy if she was a Republican she would have been slashed to pieces when she first used the claim to gain employment or better standing or whatever with the University. There would have been no political future for her, but if she had used it politically then she would have been destroyed for even a mention of NA ancestry if she could not prove it- even if she had not claimed outright to BE a Cherokee.
It is not for anyone else to prove she is or is not Cherokee, legally she is not since she is not a tribal member. She made the claim, she needs to prove it. She has not so far been able/willing to even show Cherokee ancestry, and has only claimed “family stories” to fall back on. That is your answer.
She’s probably already done a DNA test, the result may be the reason for the silence on the subject.