(AP Photo/David Goldman, File) America’s best-known fake Indian is Elizabeth Warren. She claimed for years that she was descended from the Cherokee tribe. She was lauded as an Indian by Harvard, and likely hired because of it. Warren claimed on her Texas state bar registration that she was Native American and for decades no one challenged it.
Once she came to prominence her claims were vetted widely and subsequently mocked roundly. Trump called her Pocahontas. Social media invented nicknames like “Princess Lies-A-Lot.”
It seemed obvious to the casual observer that she was stealing Indian heritage. A blonde blue-eyed woman with skin so white it was translucent, claimed she was a Cherokee because she had “high cheekbones”. It was just too rich. Her fakery wasn’t quite to the level of Shaun King’s mockable claims of being a Black man, but Warren’s claim was, nonetheless, laughable. Warren stood by her story until she […]
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