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

So far the evidence provided is flimsy at best. Anyone who has spent any time doing genealogy research knows you can't necessarily rely on a single document to prove or disprove anything. Especially if that document is not a first hand source for the person being referenced. I have spent years tracing family histories and it is amazing how many different names, birth dates, and nations of origin you can find for one person. Which is why a single document is usually not enough to prove anything. Add into it that they found this document because they were looking for a link to the Cherokee nation and you have the potential for tremendous errors in methodology. It's like an a good investigation, you don't come to a conclusion and then look for evidence to prove it. You look for evidence and then come to a conclusion based on that evidence.

But, let's just say that this is accurate and there is a document that shows she has an ancestor that may have been Cherokee. That still does not make it so. If you look at the guidelines for the Cherokee nation, she has to be able to prove that she had a blood ancestor who was listed on the Dawe's roll. If she can't do that; then, IMO she has no right proclaiming to be Cherokee because she can not prove that lineage. They will not even accept DNA evidence showing that an individual has DNA markers that link them to a native tribe.

Long story short as someone who has been told that I have Cherokee ancestors, I would never dream of using that to get a leg up on anything. One because I don't have any more proof than she does. Two, I am so far removed from the Trail of Tears and the injustices that were visited upon the members of every native American tribe that it would be disrespectful to my ancestors and their suffering to try to profit from it.

I visited Plymouth Plantation once. That makes me more of an Indian than her. Just sayin'........ HC

ABC News
Genealogist Finds Record of Warren's American-Indian Ancestry
New York Times - ‎1 hour ago‎

BOSTON -- A genealogist in Boston said Tuesday that he had found evidence that Elizabeth Warren has an American Indian ancestor, a great-great-great grandmother listed as Cherokee on her son's 1894 marriage record.

I used to drive a Grand Cherokee. It had a hemi... And I can shoot a bow. Where do I sign for free Harvard loans?

He's with the NEHGS, he should know that a second hand source doesn't prove anything. But, hey I guess it's easy to reach conclusions when you're looking at such an uncommon name as Smith. I spent 6 months and countless hours chasing down the wrong family and the name wasn't even that common. You gotta love the Irish and Italians and the fact that every generation of every family has kids named after the same saints, Patrick, John, Joseph, Mary, Ann, etc.

No kidding. Of course it's complicated and frickin expensive and time consuming too if you're going to do it right.

Hey, it worked for this guy!

My Aunt dug around hoping we were related to the Mashantucket Pequots, for obvious reasons, but it turned out to be the Chippewa...no cash.

Chief Wild Eagle: Hekawis very brave warriors, except for one thing...
Sergeant Morgan O'Rourke: What's that?
Chief Wild Eagle: We *faint* a lot.

BREAKING NEWS: Fox News is reporting that, in an unprecedented move, Elizabeth Warren took time away from her campaign to reassess and decided whether it's time to step out or move FORWARD (as Obama and Hitler like to say).

Apparently she's holding tight to her socialist agenda and she refuses to leave the race, so in her efforts to move forward she underwent a complete plastic surgery makeover.

Moments ago Geraldo Rivera broke in to the afternoon soaps, and he unveiled the new face of Elizabeth Warren, post-plastic surgery. She had a teardrop surgically and permanently implanted on her face. It's hard to tell if she's crying because she got caught in her lies, of if she's crying because she's upset over the state of affairs in this hell-hole of a state. She'll argue the latter, but I'm betting it's the former.

Anyway, here's your WARNING: she's even less pretty now than she was before, but here's the new and improved face of Elizabeth Warren: http://tinyurl.com/d82fzkq

He's prettier.

I remember that commercial from the 70's! If I remember correctly the Native American had a tear in his eye from pollution and litter. Was it Keep America Beautiful?

He'd be in histrionics now if he saw the way life is today.

It was a Forestry commercial I believe and much like the Italian in the commercial shes a totally fugazzi.

I picked that picture on purpose because the actor, "Iron Eyes Cody," was later revealed to be just another Itallian guy (named Espera DeCorti) back in 1996.

Here's the ad that The Ad Council ran in the early 1970s: www.adcouncil.org/Our-Work/The-Classics/Pollution-Keep-America-Beautiful-Iron-Eyes-Cody

Here's some info on whether the SOB was a phony piece of crap, like Elizabeth Warren: www.snopes.com/movies/actors/ironeyes.

May this debacle be the "Curt Shilling Moment" that derailed Marsha's challenge of Scott Brown a couple of years ago. This phony piece of garbage, Elizabeth Warren, should move the hell back to Oklahoma. She disgusts me to my core.

How the heck did I miss that one? Oh well, that's what having little kids does I guess. I honestly don't remember much from the 90s that didn't revolve around them.

I'd be crying at the waste of a bag of fries!

Lies...

Brother SharkBait.....Welcome, new comer of Orange and White. You have been called forth to the summit of Wannahockalugi.... lmao its all I could think of.....its what having kids does to you I guess....