Thanks, Nikos, for posting. I hadn’t actually read the background, and, quite ignorantly, until now I thought that she had discovered through genealogy some Native American ancestor hundreds of years ago, which ALSO does not make one Cherokee 10 generations later. I didn’t realize she has not even a hint of a Cherokee ancestor. Ha.
Genealogy is fascinating. I just started doing it this spring for my mom, and things families tell about their offspring are so wrong! One grandparent was told they were 100% Irish... And there is no one from Ireland anywhere in their past.
So, how does she get away with this? And why is Trump getting dumped on, when the entire republican party should demand Warren be called out.
Before genealogy became comparatively easy, a lot of people held mistaken beliefs about their ancestry. My paternal line was believed to be German, they were Lutheran in the south after all. Turned out only the wives were, in the colonial era. The surname is English.