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Showing Original Post only (View all)Here's the deal with Elizabeth Warren's Native American heritage [View all]
By Gregory Krieg, CNN
Updated 12:24 AM ET, Tue November 28, 2017
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Is Warren part Native American?
Warren says, yes, she is, and points to "family stories" passed down to her through generations as evidence. "I am very proud of my heritage," Warren told NPR in 2012. "These are my family stories. This is what my brothers and I were told by my mom and my dad, my mammaw and my pappaw. This is our lives. And I'm very proud of it."
In that account and others, a genealogist traced Warren's Native American heritage to the late 19th century, which, if true, would make her 1/32 Native American. (However, the legitimacy of those findings has been debated.)
The Washington Post's "Fact Checker" page has actually decided against judging the issue at all, offering "no rating" and, in a piece Tuesday, suggesting "readers to look into it on their own and decide whether Trump's attacks over Warren's background have merit."
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https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/29/politics/elizabeth-warren-native-american-pocahontas/index.html