Elizabeth Warren Savaged On Social Media As DNA Gambit Backfires; Cherokee Nation Furious
by
Tyler Durden
Mon, 10/15/2018 - 21:58
Update: The Cherokee Nation has issued a statement slamming Warren for her "continued claims of tribal heritage."
"A DNA test is useless to determine tribal citizenship. 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. It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, who ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is prove. Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage."Elizabeth Warren just owned herself after releasing a DNA test confirming that she's as little as 1/1024th Native American - about half the percentage of the average white person.
- Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin, Jr.
What's more, the DNA expert she used, Stanford University professor
Carlos Bustamente, "used samples from Mexico, Peru, and Colombia to
stand in for Native American" as opposed to, say, DNA from a Cherokee
Indian which Warren has claimed to be throughout her career.
Adding to the absurdity are two major corrections by the Boston Globe (which has become the media mouthpiece of Warren's 2020 damage control efforts of late), letting readers know that "Due to a math error, a story about Elizabeth Warren misstated the ancestry percentage of a potential 10th generation relative. It should be 1/1,024," and later updating it to "between 1/64th and 1/1,024th Native American."
The reactions to Warren's botched "reveal" have ranged from tenderfoot to savage
Adding to the absurdity are two major corrections by the Boston Globe (which has become the media mouthpiece of Warren's 2020 damage control efforts of late), letting readers know that "Due to a math error, a story about Elizabeth Warren misstated the ancestry percentage of a potential 10th generation relative. It should be 1/1,024," and later updating it to "between 1/64th and 1/1,024th Native American."
The reactions to Warren's botched "reveal" have ranged from tenderfoot to savage
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