AllTop Viral!

Recently, Elizabeth Warren finally decided to release DNA tests that prove she has American Indian ancestry. We recently posted about this, opining that

Warren is playing her 5% American Indian ancestry like that means something significant––which it does not, since she was hardly raised in the harsh conditions of a reservation or suffered racial discrimination based on her skin color. She didn’t hear first-hand stories about frontier violence against indigenous peoples on her grandfather’s knee. It’s a political maneuver.

 

It seems that the Cherokee nation agrees:

“A DNA test is useless to determine tribal citizenship. Current DNA tests do not even distinguish whether a person’s ancestors were indigenous to North or South America. Sovereign tribal nations set their own legal requirements for citizenship, and while DNA tests can be used to determine lineage, such as paternity to an individual, it is not evidence for tribal affiliation. Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong. It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, whose ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is prove. Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage.”

– Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin, Jr.

 

Full story at KJRH.

More news.