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| WSJ - Fauxachantis has a Rough Week, Lots of smoke in the Teepee |
| 2018-02-16 |
| [WSJ] Are there Native Americans who don't belong to any tribe? Sen. Elizabeth Warren argues that there is at least one, and on Wednesday the Massachusetts Democrat made her case to the National Congress of American Indians. Recently the Boston Globe explained why Ms. Warren needs to address the issue: There’s a ghost haunting Elizabeth Warren as she ramps up for a possible 2020 presidential bid and a reelection campaign in Massachusetts this year: her enduring and undocumented claims of Native American ancestry.... |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #13 Maybe her statement was truncated. Maybe her bloodlines are part Indian .......... fighter. Given how industrious her ancestors were in fighting Indians, she should be able to take advantage of hiring preferences for Indians. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2018-02-16 16:49 |
| #12 I grew up in New Hampshire, so I must be part Algonquin! |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-02-16 14:35 |
| #11 I am a direct descendant of the sheep grazing Lepreoconak tribe of County Cork. We've gone nearly extinct due to our aversion to work, argumentative disposition, and genetic attraction to spirits. Please remember us at mass. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-02-16 14:27 |
| #10 Oklahoma offers a number of benefits to resident Native Americans. Wonder if she filed for them. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2018-02-16 14:23 |
| #9 I have many relatives enrolled in federally recognized tribes. They in turn have many relatives who are also of native descent (i.e. they all share ancestors who are, beyond any reasonable doubt, native Americans, such as those identified in historical records, signers of treaties with the US government etc.) These "other" relatives lack the blood quantum required by most / all tribes in order to be recognized as tribal members per federal regulations. These "other" relatives can prove (by genealogical standards) they are "part native American", whereas Fauxcahontas obviously can't, or is deliberately concealing what she knows. The term "part native American" has been so abused for so long, it has become a code word for the type of lies/hypocrisy Sen. Warren has embraced. I advise my "part native American" relatives to simply state, "I am a direct descendant of Chief X, who signed the treaty of X with the USA in 18XX." This is a verifiable / falsifiable statement, with which only a fool could take uninformed exception. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-02-16 13:44 |
| #8 her enduring and undocumented claims of Native American ancestry.... Funny how this wasn't an issue when she ran against Scott Brown in 2012. I'm more interested in her lack of a Mass. law license when she was doing all those cases while at Harvard. |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-02-16 13:33 |
| #7 #4 is a classic. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-02-16 13:26 |
| #6 If she uses her ethnicity to somehow gain an advantage over other people ... That's exactly what she's done. She was a (not very good) professor at Rutgers when she "discovered" her Indian ancestry. She applied to a vacancy in Harvard on the basis of her Native American ancestry. They hired her on that basis, even though she was one of the less qualified applicants. Then Harvard Law School touted her ancestry in their publicity for several years. Not only is she fake, but Harvard Faculty Diversity program is also fake. Al |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2018-02-16 13:11 |
| #5 Fauxachantis should do a DNA ad for Ancestry dot com! Oh that's what I really am! Sorry! |
| Posted by: 3dc 2018-02-16 13:10 |
| #4 |
| Posted by: 3dc 2018-02-16 13:09 |
| #3 So now she's clearly telling us that she is just an "undocumented Indian" and apparently, she's gone off the reservation. |
| Posted by: warthogswife 2018-02-16 13:08 |
| #2 High cheek bones needs to go in the same book of derision as wide stance. |
| Posted by: Ulaise Glirong9939 2018-02-16 12:12 |
| #1 I don't think it should matters whether she is Native American or not. My question is why does it matter? If she uses her ethnicity to somehow gain an advantage over other people who do not share that ethnicity, isn't that racist? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-02-16 11:47 |