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To: sylvester80 who wrote (1093307)	10/15/2018 11:20:52 PM
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Elizabeth Warren hit with Cherokee backlash over DNA test “Even dogs have tested positive for Native DNA,” said Ms. Barnes. “The test means nothing. An American Indian is not a race, but a status based on tribal citizenship. Warren disrespected tribal sovereignty and all tribal citizens by trying to use DNA to show she’s an Indian.” https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/15/elizabeth-warren-dna-test-prompts-cherokee-backlas/ Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin Jr. said the Massachusetts Democrat was “undermining” Native Americans with her attempt to prove her tribal heritage using genetic testing, calling it “inappropriate and wrong.” “Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong,” said Mr. Hoskin in a statement. “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.” Kim TallBear, professor of native studies at the University of Alberta, accused Ms. Warren of refusing to meet with Cherokee Nation members who challenge her claims and blasted her for “colonial-settler definitions of who is Indigenous.” “She and much of the US American public privilege the voices of (mostly white) genome scientists and implicitly cede to them the power to define Indigenous identity,” said Ms. TallBear in a statement. “As scholars of race have shown, it is one of the privileges of whiteness to define and control everyone else’s identity.” The test, which she took in August at a Georgia lab, found she was 1/64th to 1/1024th Native American, or 0.09 to 1.5 percent, based on an analysis done by Stanford University geneticist Carlos Bustamante, who said the results “strongly support the existence of a unadmixed Native American ancestor.” European Americans on average have 0.18 percent Native American blood, according to a 2014 study by Harvard University and 23andMe, meaning that she may actually be less Native than the typical U.S. white person. “How much? One-one thousandth?” Mr. Trump said when asked about the DNA test. “I don’t owe her. She owes the country and apology.” Mr. Trump said he wouldn’t pay off on the bet, which he pledged to give to charity, unless he could personally verify the results. “I’ll only do it if I can test her personally. That will not be something I enjoy either,” said the president. Ms. Warren also released a video Monday of her relatives in Norman, Oklahoma, criticizing Mr. Trump for dubbing her “Pocahontas,” calling the nickname “ridiculous

To: sylvester80 who wrote (1093307)

10/16/2018 4:02:02 PM

From: Broken_Clock

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She is part S. American Indian, central American Indian or N. American Indian?

To: Celtictrader who wrote (1093362)

	10/16/2018 1:40:29 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) of 1093455

But let’s say I’m debating Pocahontas. I promise you I’ll do this: I will take, you know those little kits they sell on television… learn your heritage!… And in the middle of the debate, when she proclaims that she is of Indian heritage because her mother said she has high cheek bones. That;s her only evidence, her mother said we have high cheek bones. We will take that little kit — but we have to do it gently. Because we’re in the #MeToo generation, we have to be very gentle. And we will very gently take that kit, and we will slowly toss it, hoping it doesn’t hit her and injure her arm, even though it only weighs 2 ounces, and we will say: I will give you a million dollars to your favorite charity, paid for by Trump, if you take the test and it shows you’re an Indian.