Posted on 10/17/2018 6:06:44 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
Massachusetts senator (and 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful) Elizabeth Warren is not Native American.
Native American identity is about belonging to a community. It is a specific political, legal and social formation akin to a form of citizenship that is particular to each tribe, nation, confederacy or otherwise sovereign and self-determining Indigenous government—numbering 567 federally recognized tribes and hundreds of Alaska Native, Hawaiian and state-recognized entities across the country.
It is also racial. Not in the biological sense, but in a more ephemeral cultural and social understanding of that word—an identity lived by Native Americans across tribal affiliations and policed by the shifting structures of discrimination, opportunity and the many mundane and extraordinary life experiences in between.
Warren cannot, does not and should not claim Native American identity in its tribal or racial form. She, like many people on a continent taken from First Peoples, can claim Native American ancestry
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Wow.
I still say Potus should stop referring to her as Pocahontas. It's insulting to Pocahontas. He should be calling her Fauxcahontas.
One of the FRiends call her Psychojawea.
I think this is the 1024th story posted about this issue.
Taken?
Never ceases to amaze me of the ignorance of the Left wing media.
They make out like all Indians were living in perfect harmony with each other.
HuffPo Cut and Run. She’s toast.
Can a liberal Democrat be .09% American?
That's a joke.
Not sure but many hate America 100%.
American “Indians” live inside EUROPEAN houses.
Real Indians had NO houses.
American Indians are NOT Native Americans. The Indians died out. Get over it. End reservations.
Native Americans are EUROPEAN by influemce, which is an insult to Real Indians of old.
“I think this is the 1024th story posted about this issue.”
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From Huffpo? I think that’s part of the story here, even some on the left are calling BS on the claim.
Native Americans are EUROPEAN.
“They make out like all Indians were living in perfect harmony with each other.”
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“That’s a joke.”
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True - one thing European settlers brought was an end to tribal wars that had been going on for a long,long time.
Point is, she already has, and has derived benefits from it. Moralizing about it now does nothing to redress the fraud already committed.
Citizenship? She's an undocumented Native American and any attempt to say otherwise is obviously racist.
she worked at university as a “POC - person of color”.
When will the Left rebuke her about that?
It does, because she’s trying to insinuate that she has a right to claim it. And she doesn’t. No more than me.
“I still say Potus should stop referring to her as Pocahontas. It’s insulting to Pocahontas. He should be calling her Fauxcahontas.”
I agree with this in a serious way.
She helped the early colonists in a great way and became a Christian.
Pocahontas was a woman of virtue and a great American.
Elizabeth Warren is neither.
She, like many people on a continent taken from First Peoples....
Funny though, how the indigenous peoples mantra applies to everyplace but Europe.
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