Elizabeth Warren’s embattled campaign: Cherokee tie found 5 generations ago

[BlueStateSaint]

AYFKM?  5 generations ago???!?!?!?!?

Elizabeth Warren’s embattled campaign: Cherokee tie found 5 generations ago

Cherokee tie found 5 generations ago

By Hillary Chabot
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - Added 4 hours ago

Desperately scrambling to validate Democrat Elizabeth Warren’s Native American heritage amid questions about whether she used her minority status to further her career, the Harvard Law professor’s campaign last night finally came up with what they claim is a Cherokee connection — her great-great-great-grandmother.
 
“She would be 1⁄32nd of Elizabeth Warren’s total ancestry,” noted genealogist Christopher Child said, referring to the candidate’s great-great-great-grandmother, O.C. Sarah Smith, who is listed on an Oklahoma marriage certificate as Cherokee. Smith is an ancestor on Warren’s mother’s side, Child said.
 
The missing link comes after Warren’s embattled campaign faced sharp questions about her Native American background in the wake of Herald stories that showed both Harvard Law School and Warren herself had touted her tribal lineage and claimed she was a member of a minority for years.

Warren’s shaken campaign faced another crisis yesterday when it was revealed that beginning in 1986 and continuing through 1995, Warren had listed herself as a minority professor in the Association of American Law Schools desk book, a directory of law professors from participating schools.
 
Warren had flatly denied that she ever touted her Native American background professionally.

So, she tries to have her cake and eat it too?  And it blows up in her face.

The rest is here:  http://bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view.bg?articleid=1061128421

[JohnnyReb]

5 generations ago, my great/great/great/great grandfather lived in the south and was a white man that didn't own slaves....doesn't that qualify me for some kind of government freebie or privilege? My family tree was deprived of Mint Juleps.

[Eupher]

Well, like Frank has said over and over and over again - "Liberals lie. Liberals lie all the time."

[Alpha Mare]

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians requires that you be 1/16 or higher to join, and the United Keetowah Band requires a blood quantum of 1/4 or higher. The Cherokee Nation has no quantum restrictions, but you must have an ancestor on the Dawes Rolls.

[Zeus]

Going back 5 generations a lot of Americans would find some Indian blood in the family line.

My family lineage is Interesting.my dad was full blooded 100% Icelandic and my Mother was what she called Heinz 57 or mutt, a little bit of everything.

[marv]

Benjamin Cruzan, Sr., Co. "C", 5th Troop, 1st Regiment Light Dragoons, Continental Troops

Benjamin Cruzan, Jr., Dowden's Company of Infantry, 4th Kentucky Volunteers

William Manton Cruzan, Co. "E", 12th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Cavalry

Benjamin E Cruzan, Battery "F", 341st Field Artillery, 89th Division, 3rd Army, AEF

Marvin C Cruzan, 3275th Group, ATC, USAF;  Co."B", 937th Signal Battalion, MoANG

...all the earlier records were destroyed in Europe during WW2.

At least some of us know where we came from, and don't have to question our parentage.....

[Karin]

A few quotes from the Boston Herald.

Princess Summerfall Winterspring Warren can take her place among other famous Native Americans like Chief Jay Strongbow and Iron Eyes Cody – both of whom happened to be Italian. Granny, you’re an inspiration to all those poor souls looking to scam their way into a job.

Was Professor Pinocchiohontas lying *then* or is Professor Pinocchiohontas lying *now*?

Grandma broken horse.

Time to make glue.

There's a mix of MA and non-MA people at the comments, it seems.  Any sprinkle of pro-Warren comment is getting huge numbers of thumbs-down, while the pro-Brown ones are getting lots of thumbs-up. 

Most comments are absolutely disgusted at this fraud. 

[NHSparky]

Squaw Whitebread of the Wannabee Tribe has spoken.  You serfs down in MA don't know your place, dammit!

This campaign is gonna be so good.  She's making Coakley look downright cerebral.

[BlueStateSaint]

Squaw Whitebread of the Wannabee Tribe has spoken.  You serfs down in MA don't know your place, dammit!

This campaign is gonna be so good.  She's making Coakley look downright cerebral.

As I seem to remember, Martha Coakley wasn't exactly a rocket surgeon, either. 

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

[obumazombie]

Her Indian name is "Spreading Bull" ( the woo woo kind, not the red dot on the forehead kind). Come to think of it, she may be able to obfuscate and claim she meant red dot on the forehead Indian when she said she was one.