Elizabeth Warren’s DNA match is to Latin Americans, not Native Americans

Washington Examiner ^ | October 15, 2018 10:03 PM | Steven Nelson

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The genetics researcher who reviewed Sen. Elizabeth Warren's, D-Mass., DNA in an attempt to counter President Trump's "Pocahontas" jibes compared her samples with those from people in Colombia, Mexico, and Peru rather than Native Americans in the U.S.

Warren's DNA was reviewed at her request by Carlos Bustamante, a Stanford University genetics researcher, who compared it to reference samples and reported that he had found a Native American ancestor "approximately 8 generations" ago.

Bustamante, however, didn't compare Warren's DNA against Native Americans who live in the continental U.S., citing cultural reluctance to submit to DNA tests. Instead, he used recent samples from other countries whose populations presumably share a lineage during human settlement of the Americas about 15,000-25,000 years ago.

Warren's attempt to rebut the long-ridiculed claim, which was accompanied by a slickly produced television ad, appeared to be a move calculated to clear the way for a 2020 presidential bid. But it may backfire by adding confusion and controversy.

Some genealogical researchers point to limitations in both science and social meaning of the test results, which seem unlikely to prevent political attacks that Warren falsely claimed to be an ethnic minority to become a Harvard University professor.

Academic skeptics point out the murky nature of DNA reference samples, and others argue that even if Warren has a native ancestor, that doesn't make her an American Indian in a cultural or political sense, or validate past claims of Cherokee ancestry.

Bustamante used DNA reference samples from the 1000 Genomes Project, an international effort that recorded samples from people around the world. He wrote that the strongest proof of indigenous ancestry could be found along Chromosome 10.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I have more proof of being Jewish and the right of return than she has of being native and believe me, I’m not Jewish.

[Nifster]

Nicely played

[greedo]

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[cpdiii]

“No Tribe in any nation recognizes quantum Blood of lower than 1/32 let alone 1/1024th as Native American”

My wonderful Mexican wife is 20 percent native American but most of that blood is from Mexico. She has zero rights to privilege because of this. This is as it should be. As a Mexican National from Mexico she has the greatest privilege on earth which is to live in the Untied States of America as a legal citizen and with citizenship in the normal legal manner.

She went to our universities and obtained multiple degrees in the arts and hard sciences also. She did this in English and not Spanish which is her native tongue. I am most privileged to have this lady as my wife. She is not a democrat nor republican, she is a libertarian as I. She does not even know she is a libertarian but she is.

[Flaming Conservative]

ROFL!

[Flaming Conservative]

Cherokee nation has no blood quantum. But ya have to have SOME, and it has to be documented in Dawes Rolls.

[gigster]

I’ve dined at Taco Bell hundreds of times over the last 38 years, so can I start calling myself Juan?

[gigster]

Well, over the past 25 years, I've owned four Jeep Cherokees, so what does that make me?

[rfp1234]

An enslaver of Cherokees who locked them up in the garage? ROFL.

[kaehurowing]

Why doesn’t she claim she’s Hispanic?????

[RegulatorCountry]

Not entirely correct. The Dawes Roll was the Oklahoma Cherokee census. For Eastern Cherokee, it was the Guion Miller Roll. I’ve got nine related individuals named on that one.

I honestly think any individual with so-called Native blood according to some genetic test, equal to Elizabeth Warren’s .97%, should apply for admission to any university that has ever employed her under the false pretense of being Cherokee, apply as a Native American, then sue the pants off of them if denied admission.

[Bullish]

Oh boy, they don’t want her either.

[trebb]

Cherokee Nation: “That Warren paleface speak with forked tongue...”

[Right Wing Assault]

She’s 1/64 illegal.

[snoringbear]

“What is the point of this?”

If you think this is pointless, just wait till we (Americans and US government) get into the Black American reparations debate. Sarc/

[Flaming Conservative]

She has claimed Oklahoma Cherokee blood. “The Cherokee Nation” may be used by all three branches, but the others must define themselves as Eastern Cherokee, and the other southeast band. The Cherokee Nation, does not recognize them as part of their nation, even though, in reality, they all came from the same base and area. Not sure why they won’t, but as I’m sure you know, it has been a bone of contention fora very long time. Probably the same as with the Loyal Shawnee vs the Eastern Shawnee and Absentee Shawnee. They know they’re all related, but have separate tribal governments.

[RegulatorCountry]

That would depend entirely upon just how far back her purported ancestor might be. Removal occurred not long before the Civil War, within three generations potentially for someone of her age.