Posted on 10/04/2012 1:02:37 PM PDT by massmike
Elizabeth Warren still is not Cherokee. She never was.
Her family lore is grossly exaggerated, in all likelihood by Warren herself not her parents. Yet whenever anyone questions this family lore, Warren acts like it is an attack on her family, thereby shutting down challenges to the stories.
Warren relies on family lore because its hard to disprove what she claims she was told. Its why Warren digs in deeper with her family lore stories as the campaign goes on. She thinks she has found a safe place.
Yet there is plenty of evidence that the story about her parents eloping because her mother was Native American is not true, Warren didnt self-identify as Native American until she was 38 and climbing the law professor ladder, and even her own adult nephew who researched family genealogy called the Native American claim just rumor. The Boston Globes attempt to back up this family lore actually ended up calling it into serious question.
But, while Warren thinks she has found a safe place in her family lore, its still worth pointing out that she is not Cherokee. The Cherokee line supposedly was through her maternal grandparents, the Crawfords.
But just to put another piece of evidence on the table, real Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes has come up a newspaper clipping from the Muskogee Times Democrat on August 17, 1906.
The newspaper clipping relates to a story about how Warrens great grandfather, John H. Crawford, shot a real Indian and was identified in the newspaper as white.
(Excerpt) Read more at legalinsurrection.com ...
I read somewhere (Ch5 website?) today that Brown was 58 and Warren 30 something.
are they doing more debates or is she tired of getting her scalp handed to her?
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