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Warren Admits She Shouldn’t Have Claimed To Be Native American: ‘I Shouldn’t Have Done It, I’m Not A Person Of Color’ Oh. Can you give back your Harvard job now? https://twitter.com/AlxThomp/status/1203050517238296576?s=20 Warren gets a question in NH town hall from a voter asking what she shud tell relatives about the past claims of Native American ancestry. “I shouldn’t have done it. I am not a person of color, I am not a citizen of a tribe. And I have apologized for confusion I have caused”  

An upstate New York man has mastered the art of raccoon calling. Video posted online on September 20 by Newsflare shows the man standing on the side of a road in Brasher State Forest in St. Lawrence County playing a beautiful tune on his Native American flute. The man's skills aren't just music to viewers' ears. The raccoons seem to like it too and come out of hiding in the woods to surround the man. According to the filmmaker, at least 20 raccoons enjoyed the afternoon show before slinking back into the woods. The man, who is being dubbed the...

SALT LAKE CITY - The leader of an American Indian church is suing county officials who unsuccessfully prosecuted him for using peyote during religious ceremonies. James "Flaming Eagle" Mooney, in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday, accuses officials in Utah County of civil rights violations, including unlawfully searching his property in October 2000 and confiscating thousands of peyote buttons. Mooney, who is part American Indian, also claims the county officials have refused to return the items even though he was vindicated by a state Supreme Court ruling last June that found that non-American Indian members of the Native American Church can...

The Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians said Wednesday that University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill is an associate member of the tribe but not a full member, which requires a person to have at least one-fourth Cherokee blood. "He was trying to get recognized as an Indian. He could not prove he was an Indian (Cherokee) at all," said Ernestine Berry, who was on the tribe's enrollment committee and served on the tribal council for four years. Churchill, who resigned as chairman of CU's ethnic studies department on Monday, has been condemned for comparing victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks...