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https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/15/politics/elizabeth-warren-dna-test-native-american/index.html
Cherokee Nation Accuses Warren Of 'Undermining Tribal Interests' By
Claiming Tribal Heritage
by Diana Stancy Correll
| October 15, 2018 06:16 PM
| Updated Oct 15, 2018, 08:04 PM
Cherokee Nation, the federally recognized government of the Cherokee
people, accused Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Monday of "undermining
tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage" after
Warren released results from a DNA test showing that she had a distant
Native American ancestor.
"A DNA test is useless to determine tribal citizenship," Cherokee Nation
Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin Jr. said in a statement.
Warren, who has been called "Pocahontas" by President Trump, has claimed
she has Cherokee and Delaware heritage.
But the Cherokee Nation criticized Warren for using the DNA test to "lay
claim to any connection" to a tribal nation.
"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,"
Hoskin added. "Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the
Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and
wrong. 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."
Hoskin later told CNN's Jake Tapper that Trump's "Pocahontas" nickname for
Warren was not appropriate, after Tapper questioned Hoskin about his
position on the nickname.
"Oh, she doesn't deserve it," Hoskin said. "And I think it's a term that
he means in a derisive way."
Warren's DNA results were reported by the Boston Globe on Sunday and
revealed that the Massachusetts lawmaker has a Native American ancestor
"in the range of 6-10 generations ago," concluding she is between 0.09 and
1.5 percent Native American.
Shortly after Cherokee Nation released its statement, Warren said that she
acknowledged DNA has "nothing to do with tribal affiliation or
citizenship."
"I won't sit quietly for @realDonaldTrump's racism, so I took a test. But
DNA & family history has nothing to do with tribal affiliation or
citizenship, which is determined only - only - by Tribal Nations. I
respect the distinction, & don't list myself as Native in the Senate,"
Warren tweeted Monday.
Trump said that he will donate $1 million to a charity of Warren's choice
if he could administer the test himself, honoring a commitment he made in
July that he would make the donation if Warren took a DNA test to show her
Native American heritage.
"I'll only do it if I can test her personally," Trump told reporters
Monday. "That will not be something I enjoy doing either."
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alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.republican,
alt.politics.trump,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
STILL can't understand why liberal Democrats are so in hate with Russia
these days. They LOVED Russian politics, i.e., Socialism/Communism until
Trump whooped that wide-load Clinton's fat ass. Fucking hypocrites.