Senator Elizabeth Warren may have overloaded her political teepee with her claims of Native American ancestry. She may have overplayed this card and has never provided actual proof to her claims. Her only claim to being part Native American is a family tradition. That will not hold water in a political climate.
As Written and Reported By Annie Linskey for the Boston Globe:
WASHINGTON — 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.
Warren says now, as she has from the first days of her public life, that she based her assertions on family lore, on her reasonable trust in what she was told about her ancestry as a child.
“I know who I am,” she said in a recent interview with the Globe.
But