BUT.
I will say this. It is for some unknown reason fairly common in the South and West for people to “think” they might have some indian blood. I have no idea how exactly this came about.
I for instance spent most of my life thinking I might have a little Creek Indian in me. I finally bit the bullet one day and decided to get my DNA tested to confirm it.. and what do you know.. no Indian. Heck I am practically the whitest person alive apparently! Scottish, English, and Norwegian almost entirely.
The DNA testing doesn’t matter, you could be full-blooded Native American and they wouldn’t care if you did not have the cultural ties. That may be why she gets away with this, they are looking for cultural diversity, not genetic diversity. They want someone on campus who will woo-woo things up and apparently Warren is a woo-wooer from way back ;)
My dad's genealogy has one of those instances, with a mysterious g-g-g-grandmother (give or take a "g") who was supposedly part NA. With a surname like Jones, I suspect she had a better chance of being Welsh than Cherokee.
Mr. niteowl77
In the South the claim of Indian blood is very common. I think some of it goes back to black people that “passed”. The Indian blood thing was used to explain the darker complexion. Also run away slaves sheltered with the Indians so there where certainly some mixed folks. My husband’s family has some of this in their bloodlines.