Elizabeth Warren: Cherokee Woman, Woman of Color?

Elizabeth Warren, who is running in Massachusetts for the U.S. Senate against Scott Brown, finds herself in a flap over her claim of "being Native American."

Warren has described herself as having Cherokee and Delaware Indian ancestry. Garance Franke-Ruta writes that

Brown's campaign has seized on the story to raise questions about whether Warren misled Harvard or sought to use distant Native American ties for professional gain, and hammered on the propriety of a blonde, blue-eyed white woman describing herself as a minority.

Warren's proof that she is part Cherokee, "family lore".

And it doesn't appear she wants to answer questions about that family lore.



UPDATE: Breitbart News has uncovered exclusive new evidence that in the spring of 1993, three years before Harvard Law School first publicly stated she was “a woman of color,” Elizabeth Warren likely made that claim while teaching at Harvard, and at approximately the same time the faculty was considering her for a tenured position. Warren, now running for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, told Politico as recently as May 15 that she had “no idea” why a Harvard Law School spokesman called her a “woman of color” in a 1996 Harvard Crimson article and a 1997 Fordam Law Review article. However, a 1993 issue of the Harvard Women’s Law Journal suggests that she knew very well indeed.

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