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Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Principal Chief Richard Sneed issued a statement on Tuesday largely supporting Sen. Elizabeth Warren after she took a DNA test to prove her Native American ancestry.

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Oh and/or Delaware.

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Fair enough. I think that she is using the DNA test to bolster her campaign.

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Nothing in that link show that she claimed to be part of the Cherokee Nation.

Good source though. It proves my point. Thank you.

DNA isn’t relevant when determining tribal membership. DNA can tell you a lot about your relatives though. One of Warren’s ancestors was Native America. This is indisputable.

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Cherokee and or Delaware.

No it doesn’t. They used Peruvian DNA.

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Trying to not be white.

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I agree that it wasn’t a good move for Warren to take Trump’s bait when he dared her to take a DNA test to prove the family stories her parents told her about one of her ancestors being Native American.

I don’t think she took the test in order to gain the Native American vote.

She got baited by Trump. It’s not a good look, but she has plenty of time to recover. She’s a very smart woman who is REALLY good on the issues that matter to the majority of Americans.

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I agree.

10 Char.

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What?

10 Char

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Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians numbers 14,000.
The Cherokee Nation numbers 299,000. It totally rebukes Warren.

Why the Cherokee Nation’s rebuke of Elizabeth Warren matters

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/16/why-cherokee-nations-rebuke-elizabeth-warren-matters/?utm_term=.bbc0edc90e5f

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Warren asserted that her parents had to elope because of hostility from her father’s family to her mother’s Cherokee and Delaware ancestry.

There’s plenty in there about her using it to.

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That’s a really old article. Are they still mad at her?

Edit:
Hey Bill. I just found this out. Hoskin is an appointee, not an elected official, and he was speaking only for himself, not on behalf of the Cherokee Nation. So far he’s the ONLY person, from what I can tell, from the Cherokee Nation who is upset with her.

Do you have anything else?

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Well, if she is a millionaire Cherokee, she has a free pass to lecture white folks earning 50k or less about their “privilege.”

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“As a kid, I never asked my mom for documentation when she talked about our Native American heritage. What kid would? But I knew my father’s family didn’t like that she was part Cherokee and part Delaware, so my parents had to elope,” she said.

I’ll assume the source is acceptable.

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And worth $10M

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So you were wrong?

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What are you talking about?

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Wait, where did my comment go? I wondered why this quote of hers was more thread-worthy than what she had for lunch today, and it got deleted, yet a quote of that is still there.

Weird. I wonder what that got flagged for. Strange.

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Try to stay on topic. We’re discussing whether having Native American ancestry is different than being part of a Native American Nation. It is. Some people are having a problem telling the two apart though.

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I’m glad ol’ Liz finally found out what the rest of the nation already knew. lol

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