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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Document ties Warren kin to Cherokees
The Boston Globe
April 30, 2012|Noah Bierman
A record unearthed Monday shows that US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has a great-great-great grandmother listed in an 1894 document as a Cherokee, said a genealogist at the New England Historic and Genealogy Society.
The shred of evidence could validate her assertion that she has Native American ancestry, making her 1/32 American Indian, but may not put an end to the questions swirling around the subject.
Intense focus on Warren’s heritage comes as the Democrat has faced several days of scrutiny about whether she has represented herself as a minority in her academic career.
Full Story: http://articles.boston.com/2012-04-30/metro/31488941_1_cherokee-nation-elizabeth-warren-official-dawes-commission-rolls
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