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Showing Original Post only (View all)Warren offers public apology over claim to tribal heritage, receives standing ovation [View all]
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren offered a public apology Monday to Native Americans over her past claim to tribal heritage, directly tackling an area thats proved to be her biggest political liability. Like anyone who has been honest with themselves, I know I have made mistakes, the Massachusetts senator said at the start of her appearance at a forum on Native American issues in this pivotal early-voting state. I am sorry for the harm I have caused.
Her past claim to tribal ancestry, which culminated in her release of a DNA analysis last year, had drawn criticism from some Native Americans and dogged her 2020 campaign in its early weeks. But Warren, who last week released a detailed policy agenda to help Native Americans, has since climbed in the polls.
Warren drew a standing ovation from the audience at the kickoff of the two-day forum, which is drawing 10 of her White House rivals. The event promises to test Warrens ability to move beyond the flap over her discussions of her heritage, for which she had previously apologized privately to the Cherokee Nation.
I have listened and I have learned a lot from conversations with Native Americans in recent months, Warren said, describing herself as grateful for the discussions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/warren-to-test-ability-to-move-beyond-native-american-flap/2019/08/19/09c0197e-c28c-11e9-8bf7-cde2d9e09055_story.html
Her past claim to tribal ancestry, which culminated in her release of a DNA analysis last year, had drawn criticism from some Native Americans and dogged her 2020 campaign in its early weeks. But Warren, who last week released a detailed policy agenda to help Native Americans, has since climbed in the polls.
Warren drew a standing ovation from the audience at the kickoff of the two-day forum, which is drawing 10 of her White House rivals. The event promises to test Warrens ability to move beyond the flap over her discussions of her heritage, for which she had previously apologized privately to the Cherokee Nation.
I have listened and I have learned a lot from conversations with Native Americans in recent months, Warren said, describing herself as grateful for the discussions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/warren-to-test-ability-to-move-beyond-native-american-flap/2019/08/19/09c0197e-c28c-11e9-8bf7-cde2d9e09055_story.html
Edited to add this quote from Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM), who introduced Warren:
I say the president who worships Andrew Jackson, who coddles white supremacists and defends Vladimir Putin, who cages children and freely admitted to assaulting women, is no match for a woman with a plan.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-native-american.amp.html
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-native-american.amp.html
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Warren offers public apology over claim to tribal heritage, receives standing ovation [View all]
BeyondGeography
Aug 2019
OP
The issue was her idenifying as American Indian on her 1986 State Bar of Texas write-in form...
Drunken Irishman
Aug 2019
#10
There were NO BENEFITS to claiming it on that Texas bar form. And the forms she signed earlier
pnwmom
Aug 2019
#66
I think the issue was always her putting American Indian on 1986 State Bar of Texas write-in form...
Drunken Irishman
Aug 2019
#9
I've seen no claims made by her that she was told she was 100% American Indian.
Drunken Irishman
Aug 2019
#16
When she was young, the term octaroon was still in use, in some parts of the country.
pnwmom
Aug 2019
#73
I don't believe she argued for tribal heritage, but rather, claimed only that according to family
emmaverybo
Aug 2019
#26
I can relate to Elizebeth Warren. Growing up I was told I was part Cherokee ...
marble falls
Aug 2019
#40
Unlike you, Warren's DNA test proved she did indeed have Native American ancestry.
SunSeeker
Aug 2019
#52
To publicly claim Native American ancestry when all you have as proof is family legend
elocs
Aug 2019
#61
Her DNA test did NOT come back with a "big zero" like yours. It proved she was right.
SunSeeker
Aug 2019
#64