Elizabeth Warren Native American Heritage Backed Up By 1894 Document

BOSTON -- A genealogist in Massachusetts has uncovered evidence that Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren does have Native American heritage as she claims.

Christopher Child of the New England Historic and Genealogy Society said Monday he found an 1894 document in which Warren's great-great-great grandmother is listed as Cherokee, which would make the Harvard Law School professor 1/32nd American Indian. Child says more research is needed.

Warren is the likely challenger to Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown.

Questions have arisen over whether Warren has represented herself as a minority during her academic career. She says she doesn't remember doing so.

Warren says she wasn't aware that Harvard had listed her as a Native American faculty member in the 1990s.

Brown's campaign manager says the situation "raises serious questions" about Warren's credibility.

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[trinidad48]

11:52 AM on 09/30/2012

elizabeth warren is a fraud a cheat- she would make an excellent politician

[amberhrt1]

04:00 PM on 08/21/2012

I live in Oklahoma where every second person claims Native American heritage. This is one state where Native American heritage is not looked down upon and many people are proud of having some however minute. I'm sure full-blooded Natives scoff, but it's not unusual for politicians and other officials to declared themselves Indian.

[Lili Q]

05:01 PM on 06/05/2012

Does that same document verify President Obama's Cherokee ancestry claims too?

[trinidad48]

11:54 AM on 09/30/2012

the document is a fraud also-just myusterously appears

[hkidher1]

11:31 PM on 06/02/2012

Elizabeth Warren's nose is growing faster then Pinocchio's.

[Jim Creamer]

11:36 AM on 06/17/2012

Stop looking in the mirror!

[fortunecucich]

07:53 PM on 05/26/2012

You know what? I dont care if she exaggerated, or even if she fibbed; she has done so much good
and I honestly believe that her heart is in the right place.
Who can honestly say they never in their life have fibbed, lied,
or gave misleading information?

[Lili Q]

05:03 PM on 06/05/2012

Yeah especially on employment applications, credit applications or applications for national security clearance. We gave up on requiring honest answers under oath during the Clinton Administration.

[trinidad48]

11:56 AM on 09/30/2012

her blackheart-she's a fraud-can't make it on her own merits

[RayEvansHarrell]

04:45 PM on 05/19/2012

My Cherokee father said that we hid because if my sister was raped, as Indians, we would have no standing in court to protest. (Supreme Court: Elk vs. Wilkins 1884 said the fourteenth amendment did not grant legal or citizen rights to Native Americans.) My father saw the first time a "reservation" Indian was allowed to vote. He also heard white scholars say that Indian Languages were not capable of sustaining modern science and so they would have to give up their native tongues in favor of English and learn to be good whites. Indians were not "free people of color" because they were considered in many cases "white" because they thought Indians would "become" Americans while even a tiny drop of African blood would disqualify African Americans according to the science of the day. American Indians would have to be "White" and "Christian." American Indians were not allowed to take our seat in the world religions until Congress gave us that right in 1978. That's right, we couldn't pray in public unless we were Christians, even in Oklahoma. The Freedom of Religion Act was passed when Warren was 24 years old.

That she stood up and claimed her rights for her ancestors and her children is not a bad but a good thing.

[Lili Q]

05:07 PM on 06/05/2012

Cherokee was one of the civilized tribes and owned slaves. "The Five Tribes were divided in politics during the American Civil War. The Choctaw and Chickasaw fought predominantly on the Confederate side. The Creek and Seminole supported the Union, while the Cherokee fought a civil war within their own nation between the majority Confederates and the minority, pro-Union men. As an element in Reconstruction after the Civil War, new Reconstruction Treaties were signed with tribes that had previously signed treaties with the Confederate States of America." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Civilized_Tribes

[trinidad48]

11:58 AM on 09/30/2012

wow -civilized? and owned slaves- what a yardstick-

[jbh2009]

06:14 PM on 05/16/2012

University of Pennsylvania also listed Elizabeth Warren as a minority

[jbh2009]

06:07 PM on 05/16/2012

yeah - not so much ...

Globe Buries Warren-Cherokee Correction
…ancient burial grounds full- 3rd entry at “For the Record” makes due.

Correction: Because of a reporting error, a story in the May 1 Metro section and the accompanying headline incorrectly described the 1894 document that was purported to list Elizabeth Warren’s great-great-great grandmother as a Cherokee. The document, alluded to in a family newsletter found by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, was an application for a marriage license, not the license itself. Neither the society nor the Globe has seen the primary document, whose existence has not been proven.



http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2012/05/14/for-record/20uQnW6yCV3uOL2bRDfseK/story.html

[OLJW00]

12:26 PM on 05/16/2012

From the Boston Herald TODAY regarding this alleged document:

"It’s going to be difficult to prove the existence of that primary document, considering that the Logan County, Okla., clerk told the Herald’s Hillary Chabot on Monday that there was no such marriage application in 1894."

Well then........as there was no document any claim that there was and put out by her campaign was an absolute l.i.e.

But hey...there is that matter of proof where her pappaw had high-cheekbones. And who can doubt that as rock-solid proof?

[T4Timbuktu]

09:17 AM on 05/16/2012

Now that this latest falsehood about her being 1/32nd Cherokee has been debunked, I think it would be a good idea if she suspended her campaign. Falsifying your resume to gain advantage in a job opens up a number of issues, all point to her being a crook. What if it were your daughter who was passed over because of this fraud? We dont need her. Let's run a qualified real democratic woman of color, not someone who has achieved her position by gaming the Affirmative Action system.

[theexperimentisfinished]

01:07 PM on 05/12/2012

Turns out the document is a fraud:

http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/05/genealogist-who-claimed-elizabeth-warren-was-132-cherokee-goes-silent-as-source-document-exposed-as-false/

[OLJW00]

12:29 PM on 05/16/2012

And deafening silence ensues....

This is also an example of how you can tank an entire campaign, cuz hers is OVER.

Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive.

[mediadeath]

10:24 AM on 05/10/2012

She wants credit for the suffering of the Cherokee people. She WANTS to be viewed as victimized. SICK SICK SICK

[T4Timbuktu]

09:17 AM on 05/16/2012

Huge issue. Not looking good for her.

[jstanavgguy]

12:33 PM on 05/16/2012

You do know that her great great grandfather was part of the armed force that rounded up Cherokee indians, and sent them down the 'Trail of Tears'.

Maybe her 'heritage' comes from her distand relative victimizing an innocent Cherokee woman?

[robertaruth]

11:53 AM on 05/09/2012

Funny (and I don't mean "ha ha" funny) that the comments here castigating Elizabeth Warren for proclaiming her (truth or not) Cherokee heritage, as minute as it might be, are most likely the very ones who made a big deal about Obama having been fed dog meat when he was 6 years old.

[luvdatbobcat]

10:34 AM on 05/09/2012

Another misleading Huff Post headline. The marriage record is hearsay, thus does not "back" Warren's Native American Heritage.

[HellBentForLeather]

09:42 AM on 05/09/2012

me thinks she is lying...