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She’s a fake, and an Indian (American) genealogist knows it: http://www.pollysgranddaughter.com/p/elizabeth-warren-information.html

Money quote:

“Elizabeth Warren is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from the state of Massachusetts. She claims she is of Cherokee descent. She has come under fire for possibly using that claim to give her career a boost at a time when Harvard Law was under pressure to hire more minority professors. We have done extensive research on her ancestry and on the stories she has told trying to back up her claim. There is absolutely no evidence to suggest she actually had a Cherokee or American Indian ancestor. Despite repeated requests for her to release her personnel records from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School, she refuses to do so.”

From the same site:

Elizabeth Warren’s Maternal Ancestors

She claims to have Indian blood through her mother so that side of her family is shown here. All were always found in all records as white. They were never found in any Cherokee records or listed as Indian. The Trail of Tears was in 1838-39. We chose to show back to the generation born before that time, though we have traced most her lines back further. Additional information or documentation available upon request.

Generation 1

1. Pauline Louise Reed: born 14 Feb 1912 in Hughes County, Oklahoma; died 19 Jul 1995 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.

Generation 2

2. Harry Gunn Reed: born 1 Oct 1872 in Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois; married 2 Jun 1893 in Sebastian, Arkansas, United States; died 23 Dec 1956 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.
3. Bethania Elvina “Hannie” Crawford: born 29 Oct 1875 in Laclede County, Missouri; died 11 Nov 1969 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.

Generation 3

4. Joseph H Reed: born abt 1837 in Ohio; died 13 Feb 1898 in Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas.
5. Charity Louise Gorman: born abt 1841 in Illinois; died bef 1900.
6. John Houston Crawford: born 26 Mar 1858 in Laclede County, Missouri; died 23 Jan 1924 in Hughes County, Oklahoma.
7. Paulina Ann Bowen: born abt 1860 in Missouri; died 1905 in Johnson County, Arkansas.

Generation 4

8. Joseph H Reed: born 17 Jun 1793 in New Jersey; died 27 Feb 1847 in Richland County, Illinois.
9. Eliza Bell: born 1798 in New Jersey; died 1869 in Richland County, Illinois.
10. Ezekiel Gorman: born 1800 in Missouri; married 7 Dec 1828 in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri; died 20 Mar 1867 (bef) in Washington County, Illinois.
11. Elizabeth Mathieus: born abt 1810 in Missouri.
12. Preston H Crawford: born 1824 in Tennessee; died 1875 in Laclede County, Missouri.
13. Edith May Marsh: born 5 Mar 1826 in Tennessee; died 24 Jun 1871 in Laclede County, Missouri.
14. George Washington Bowen: born 14 Feb 1826 in Indiana; married 1 Jan 1846 in Camden, Ray County, Missouri; died 14 Jan 1907 in Clarksville, Johnson County, Arkansas.
15. Bethany Clark: born 27 Feb 1828 in Kentucky; died 17 Jun 1926 in Johnson County, Arkansas

Also from the same site:

Timeline of Elizabeth Warren’s Minority Claim

1977 to 1978 - Taught at Rutgers University
1978 to 1983 - Taught at University of Houston

1981 to 1987 - University of Texas (Austin), personnel records listed her as white

From the Boston Globe, “Warren’s employment document at the University of Texas allowed her to check multiple boxes specifying “the racial category or categories with which you most closely identify.” The options included “American Indian or Alaskan Native,” but she chose only white.”
1986 - Listed herself as a minority in the American Association of Law Schools directory

From the Washington Post, “Warren first listed herself as a minority in the Association of American Law Schools Directory of Faculty in 1986, the year before she joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She continued to list herself as a minority until 1995, the year she accepted a tenured position at Harvard Law School.”
1987 to 1992 - Taught at University of Pennsylvania

1992 to 1993 - Taught at Harvard Law School as visiting professor

1993 - Harvard behind in diversity goals

From The Crimson, “As the University winds up a plan launched in 1988 to promote diversity in its faculty and staff, officials express disappointment about their progress.”
1993 - Harvard minority student groups issue demands

From the Crimson, “The panelists addressed several of the issues raised by the protesters, including Harvard’s response to Mansfield’s remarks, the lack of minority faculty and the absence of Asian-American representation on the panel.”
1993 - Listed in the article “Women of Color in Legal Academia: A Biographic and Bibliographic Guide”

From Breibart, “An article, “Women of Color in Legal Academia: A Biographic and Bibliographic Guide,” which was published by the Harvard Women’s Law Journal (since renamed the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender) in its Spring 1993 edition (Volume 16), lists Warren as one of approximately 250 “women of color” in legal academia.”
1993 - Offered permanent position at Harvard (turned down)

From The Crimson, “Visiting Professor of Law Elizabeth Warren, one of the two female scholars offered tenure by Harvard Law School this year, said yesterday that she will not accept the post.

Warren, who holds a tenured position at the University of Pennsylvania, said that her decision was based on “personal reasons.” “
1993 to 1995 - Taught at University of Pennsylvania

1994 - University of Pennsylvania, received a teaching award, designated as a minority

From the Boston Globe, “The University of Pennsylvania, where Warren taught at the law school from 1987 through 1995, listed her as a minority in a “Minority Equity Report” posted on its website. The report, published in 2005, well after her departure, included her as the winner of a faculty award in 1994. Her name was highlighted in bold, the designation used for minorities in the report.”
March 1994 - Student Protests at Harvard demanding more minority faculty hires

From The Crimson, “Beginning on March 5, the Saturday of Junior Parents Weekend ,the Asian American Association, Raza and other minority groups launched an all-out assault, complete with protests, petitions and postering. one of their primary goals: to increase minority faculty hiring.”

and

“A protester’s sign on March 5 displays Harvard’s “report card,” giving the administration an “A” for “evasion” and an “F” for “action” on the issue of minority faculty hiring The underlying message is that Harvard’s facultyis not diverse due to institutionalized racism and stubborn, reactionary administrators.”
1995 - Accepted a permanent position at Harvard Law School

From The Crimson, “University of Pennsylvania legal scholar Elizabeth Warren has been appointed the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, University officials announced yesterday.
Warren, who taught at the law school as a visiting professor during the spring of 1993, said yesterday the offer had been available since that time, but added that family circum-stances had kept her from accepting the position until now.”
1995 - Stopped listing herself as minority in the American Association of Law Schools directory

From The Crimson, “Although the conventional wisdom among students and faculty is that the Law School faculty includes no minority women, Chmura said Professor of Law Elizabeth Warren is Native American.”
1997 - Touted as Harvard Law’s first woman of color in Fordham Law Review

From Politico, “ “There are few women of color who hold important positions in the academy, Fortune 500 companies, or other prominent fields or industries,” the piece says. “This is not inconsequential. Diversifying these arenas, in part by adding qualified women of color to their ranks, remains important for many reaons. For one, there are scant women of color as role models. In my three years at Stanford Law School, there were no professors who were women of color. Harvard Law School hired its first woman of color, Elizabeth Warren, in 1995.” “