[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

If I remember correctly, she claimed to be part American Indian. She was not.

Bill Clinton once claimed to be part American Indian. He was an Honorary member of the Cherokees. No Indian blood in him.

[katana]

She may or may not be, but at best she's one sixty fourth part Cherokee, apparently because one of her white ancestors was a guard accompanying the Cherokee along the Trail of Tears who supposedly fathered a child off one of his prisoners. So besides being descended from what any modern international court would classify as a War Criminal, the scandal is that Warren used that (probably apocryphal) family legend to claim benefits set aside for Native Americans.

A lot of people, including myself, can claim some Indian ancestry. We may even, as I do, have some documentation for it on both my mother's (Lenape/Delaware) and father's (Cherokee) sides. But when it's so far back in time no tribe will recognize a person as a tribal member. I've certainly never claimed any benefits for two hundred year old accidents of birth. What Warren did was out and out fraud.