Posted on 01/19/2018 3:33:44 PM PST by RoosterRedux
There’s a ghost haunting Elizabeth Warren as she ramps up for a possible 2020 presidential bid and a reelection campaign in Massachusetts this year: her enduring and undocumented claims of Native American ancestry.
Warren says now, as she has from the first days of her public life, that she based her assertions on family lore, on her reasonable trust in what she was told about her ancestry as a child.
“I know who I am,” she said in a recent interview with the Globe.
But that self-awareness may not be enough, as her political ambitions blossom. She’s taken flak from the right for years as a “fake Indian,” including taunts from President Trump, who derisively calls her “Pocahontas.’’ That clamor from the right will only grow with her increasing prominence.
And, more telling, there’s also discomfort on the left and among some tribal leaders and activists that Warren has a political blind spot when it comes to the murkiness surrounding her story of her heritage, which blew up as an issue in her victorious 2012 Massachusetts Senate race. In recent months, Daily Show host Trevor Noahmockedher for claiming Native American ancestry and the liberal website ThinkProgress published a scathing criticism of her by a Cherokee activist who said she should apologize.
As Warren is mentioned as a serious presidential contender in 2020, even some who should be her natural allies say Warren has displayed a stubborn unwillingness to address the gap between the story she was told of Native Americans in the family tree and a dearth of hard evidence to back it up.
It’s a disconnect that has lingered unresolved in the public sphere for more than five years.
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She’s just a dirty thief.
She stole money that was meant for Indians.
Tee Pee or not tee pee!
Her chapter in Pow Wow Chow....”Cooked Goose.”
Member when Barack Obama claimed to be a Kenyan/Indonesian citizen in order to get that sweetheart foreign student scholarship from occidental collage and later Colombia?
Wait we never ever got to see his college records...
I wonder WHY????
[ She’s just a dirty thief.
She stole money that was meant for Indians. ]
Well she is in good company, the last president stole money from an Indonesian or a Kenyan, but we never could see the records to find out...
Suppose for the sake of discussion that Senator Warren really is part Cherokee. Great. But is anyone going to tell me with a straight face that this silver-spoon-sucking doyenne ever suffered discrimination or setbacks for being part Native American?
Is a professorial gig in the Ivy League for really compensation for The Trail of Tears?
She’s not a Indian giver.
She’s a Indian taker.
Not only is this woman a liar and thief, she is a complete lightweight
I pray she is the Rats nominee in 2020. Trump will win over 500 in the EC
“the story she was told of Native Americans”
She said she was told. I have never seen any corrobration of her claim that she was told.
She’d get about, what, 1% of the vote?
She pretended to be an Indian very early on. In 1984 she went so far as to contribute a recipe to a book called “Pow-Wow Chow”, I kid you not.
And the kicker. Her recipe for Pow-Wow Chow was plagiarized from a French food cookbook.
She’s a fake Indians and a deliberate plagiarist.
Scalp her
California alone would prevent that. Yes, my stupid-ass state would vote for Warren over Trump.
“Elizabeth Warren’s Pow Wow Chow ‘Cherokee’ recipes were word for word COPIES of famous FRENCH chef’s techniques “
I don’t really know if she does have what she called “Cherokee” ancestry, but she DID have an ancestor who was one of the guards on “The Removal” (Trail of Tears)...
Does she identify as “Cherokee”, “Tsalagi”, or “Ani Yun Wiya”???
How
Harvard should be embarrassed for hiring her as a minority.
Some great reviews of PowWow Chow.
https://www.amazon.com/Pow-Wow-Chow-Collection-Civilized/dp/9996688445
e.g.
Sergeant O’Rourke, Corporal Agarn and the rest of the troop really enjoyed the chow offered up in this recipe book, particularly those written by the high-cheekbone squaw Harvard Or Bust.
She ain’t much to look at but what she can do with 0/32 of a buffalo, a hint of brown mustard and a carrot over a campfire next to the teepee is remarkable!
However, nearly all agreed that the dishes would be enhanced by a bit ‘o dog.
Capt. Parmenter
Officer Commanding, F-Troop
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