Chuck Hoskin Jr., secretary of state of the Cherokee Nation, said Warren was “undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage.”

“A DNA test is useless to determine tribal citizenship,” Hoskin said. “Current DNA tests do not even distinguish whether a person’s ancestors were indigenous to North or South America. Sovereign tribal nations set their own legal requirements for citizenship, and while DNA tests can be used to determine lineage, such as paternity to an individual, it is not evidence for tribal affiliation. Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong.”

He added, “It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, whose ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is proven.”

Warren responded by tweeting that she respects the distinction between DNA and tribal affiliation or citizenship and that she doesn’t list herself as a Native American in the Senate.

They took the whole Cherokee nation
Put us on this reservation
Took away our ways of life
The tomahawk and the bow and knife
Took away our native tongue
And taught their English to our young
And all the beads we made by hand
Are nowadays made in Japan...

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DrafterX wrote:

Oh Gene don’t go quoting the Huffpo, the TDSers won’t know what to say and will probably post another topic to deflect.

ZRX1200 wrote:

https://politics.theonion.com/elizabeth-warren-disappointed-after-dna-test-shows-zero-1829766407
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Buckwheat wrote:

a cook book her cousin edited in the 80's?

her 10 ingredient omelet included the exact same 4 ingredients as a famous french chef's recipe? I'm going out on a limb here and guess the four were eggs, milk, butter and cheese? Am I close?

"Enjoy as a side dish with meat"...plagiarized from Better Homes and Gardens?

Z, you have no idea what a low life Howie Carr has been for 40 years, the source of this scandal. Was a writer for the trash paper Boston Herald before becoming an attack dog who makes Warren look like a lap dog on local radio. His m.o. was to toss out made up charges or gossip he started (as if reality wasn't bad enough) at political guests on his show. Stuff like "isn't it true you got your daughter a job in the local Post Office?' The pol would say, "no". and Howie would say "Oh yeah?" And then he'd have nothing other than, "well that's the story I heard circulating in the halls of the Sate House".

Drafter hears more reliable stuff. A real POS, the kind of journalist Trump has been dreaming about, only conservative.

True story...I recently saw him in the men's room of his office building in Needham MA and he did not wash his hands after peeing! I think that's a worse crime.

Can we at least agreethat if she's guilty of cook book fraud 3 decades ago, we decide that lifting a recipe 30 years before holding an elected office is as meaningless as having affairs with porn stars and Playboy bunnies before becoming President?

And I'll repeat, I do not want her to run for POTUS.

frankj1 wrote:

this is perhaps the most disappointing thing you've ever posted.

Carr a low life?

Just say you disagree with his politics.

The guy is the ONLY one with balls enough to take on hit men like Kennedy and Bulger.

tailgater wrote:

I don’t care about her omelette recipe, she signed it with her name and “Cherokee”

ZRX1200 wrote:

probably the most heinous act of any future office holder in history.
Worse than even...?

My friend Joe admonished me for calling a non-office holder a low life. He said I could disagree with his politics but I was wrong to call him a name.

Do we hold Pocahon...I mean Warren the same respect?

HA!

frankj1 wrote:

I think she got them in college

ZRX1200 wrote: