Posted on 02/01/2019 1:46:03 PM PST by billorites
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) has apologized to the Cherokee Nation for publicly releasing the results of her DNA test in an attempt to substantiate her claim to Native American ancestry ahead of a 2020 presidential run.
Warren called Bill John Baker, the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, on Thursday afternoon to apologize for advertising her DNA test in response to President Trump’s mockingly labeling her “Pocahontas” and questioning the validity of her claim.
“I understand that she apologized for causing confusion on tribal sovereignty and tribal citizenship and the harm that has resulted,” Cherokee Nation spokeswoman Julie Hubbard said. “The chief and secretary of state appreciate that she has reaffirmed that she is not a Cherokee Nation citizen or a citizen of any tribal nation.”
Warren’s apology, first reported by The Intercept, comes after a number of tribal leaders and liberal activists chastised her in October for appearing to use her claim to tribal identity to further her political career.
Cherokee Nation secretary of state Chuck Hoskin, in particular, condemned Warren’s actions in a column published in the Tulsa World, in which he argued that tribal identity transcends mere biology. 7
“This concept of family is key to understanding why citizenship matters,” Hoskin wrote. “That is why it offends us when some of our national leaders seek to ascribe inappropriately membership or citizenship to themselves. They would be welcome to our table as friends, but claiming to be family to gain a spot at the table is unwelcome.”
In the face of such criticisms, Warren initially defended her decision to release the DNA test, which was accompanied by a promotional video featuring her family members.
“I put it out there. It’s on the internet for anybody to see,” Warren said of the test, which indicated she had a Native American ancestor six to ten generations ago. “People can make of it what they will. I’m going to continue fighting on the issues that brought me to Washington.”
She could care less. She’s just trying to dump the deliberate lie she told for so many years.
She’s 1/1024th something from probably South America and not North America.
Whatever that might be it ain’t Cherokee and that nasty skag is no princess!!!
I’m just looking forward to Pocahauntus, sparticuss, and the Slut all on stage tearing each other up over who’s going to be the best Joseph Stalin.
If she were a white, conservative, male she’d been run out of the Senate by now.
Ugh!
So, she didn’t apologize for appropriating Native American culture in order to get advantages in school admission, etc. She apologized for making the results that showed she is completely white public.
What a piece of work.
Oh, and that 1/1024 native South American that the test supposedly revealed? I hate to have to point this out, but it is so small that it falls within background noise. In other words, out of a random sampling of 100% Europeans who have never even traveled to the Americas, one would expect to find this result. Some might even show more “relatedness,” without actually being related at all.
lol
But maybe someday when she learns
Cherokee nation will return
Other tribes now offended?
This old woman is as brittle as glass.
There should be a lawsuit somewhere.
She lied many times to get jobs and such.
She lied to Harvard? Right?
Too few of those on the senate. Re-pansy-cans.
You should use a glass for your firewater!
Elizabeth Warren (left) with her debate partner Karl Johnson.
Well, I saw a White Cherokee drive by just a few minutes ago! But it had blackwall tires. just to be ethnically acceptable.
I’m gonna be playing Don Fardon’s “Indian Reservation” when she takes the stage.
Song half breed by cher
My father married a pure Cherokee
My mother’s people were ashamed of me
The Indians said I was white by law
The White Man always called me “Indian Squaw”
Half-breed, that’s all I ever heard
Half-breed, how I learned to hate the word
Half-breed, she’s no good they warned
Both sides were against me since the day I was born
We never settled, went from town to town
When you’re not welcome you don’t hang around
The other children always laughed at me
“Give her a feather, she’s a Cherokee”
Half-breed, that’s all I ever heard
Half-breed, how I learned to hate the word
Half-breed, she’s no good they warned
Both sides were against me since the day I was born
We weren’t accepted and I felt ashamed
Nineteen I left them, tell me who’s to blame
My life since then has been from man to man
But I can’t run away from what I am
Half-breed, that’s all I ever heard
Half-breed, how I learned to hate the word
Half-breed, she’s no good they warned
Both sides were against me since the day I was born
Half-breed, that’s all I ever heard
Half-breed, how I learned to hate the word
Half-breed, she’s no good they warned
Both sides were against me since the day I was born
Songwriters: Al Capps / Mary Dean
Half-Breed lyrics © North Music Group
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Artist: Cher
Album: Half-Breed
Released: 1973
‘I’m just looking forward to Pocahauntus, sparticuss, and the Slut all on stage tearing each other up...’
do you know for a fact that Harris is in fact a slut...? seems to me that’s the kind of slander people don’t need to be flinging around lightly; Pocahontas and Spartacus is just a bit of fun, but calling someone a slut, that’s dark...
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