The issue, to me, has never been whether Warren thinks she has some Indian ancestry in her background. A lot of Americans have “family lore” that one of their great, great, great grandparents was an Indian. Sometimes its true and sometimes its false. The issue is that Warren used it to get ahead. She was the Indian on the Harvard staff. Whether or not she is 1/32nd Indian, her self-identifying as an Indian is ridiculous. She is as white as a sheet. There is absolutely nothing in her personal history that suggests that she lived as an Indian or was part of an Indian culture.
I'm 1/16, so I have a greater claim than she does. But since, like her, I grew up with 0 Native American cultural heritage, it would be a fraud for me to in any way claim Indian status.
Yeah, everybody’s caught up in them high cheekbones.
If she was a real Indian, she should at least be able to show she owns stock in a Cherokee casino.