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The DNA test 23 And Me, was used to "prove" she had Native-American ancestry. But the test merely showed that one of her ancestors may have sat on a toilet seat, got impregnated by either a South American or possibly a Native American, and that she might be 1/1024th Cherokee. Or not.
Warren's calculated apology comes after she sent out smoke signals to formally launch her 2020 presidential campaign.
“Senator Warren has reached out to us and has apologized to the tribe. We are encouraged by this dialogue and understanding that being a Cherokee Nation tribal citizen is rooted in centuries of culture and laws, not through DNA tests,” Cherokee Nation spokeswoman Julie Hubbard wrote in a statement written in English rather than her native Iroquoian, which Warren does not speak.
The October DNA test by the Massachusetts senator angered some tribal leaders and sparked plenty big political pushback against the squaw at the time.
The move comes just over a quarter moon before Warren is expected to formally declare her candidacy for president, once she launched an exploratory committee.
“Senator Warren has reached out to us and has apologized to the tribe. We are encouraged by this dialogue and understanding that being a Cherokee Nation tribal citizen is rooted in centuries of culture and laws, not through DNA tests,” Cherokee Nation spokeswoman Julie Hubbard wrote in a statement written in English rather than her native Iroquoian, which Warren does not speak.
The October DNA test by the Massachusetts senator angered some tribal leaders and sparked plenty big political pushback against the squaw at the time.
The move comes just over a quarter moon before Warren is expected to formally declare her candidacy for president, once she launched an exploratory committee.
On Thursday, her campaign teased that Warren would have an announcement on Feb. 9. The country is waiting with baited breath.
Warren's effort to clean up from the DNA test rollout comes as several other big-name figures enter the 2020 race -- most recently, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker on Friday.
The DNA results also fueled claims by Republican critics that she used a trace amount of Native American heritage to advance her academic career as she did at Harvard, a school that hires based on intersectional criteria.
The test itself revealed strong evidence the Massachusetts senator had a Native-American ancestor dating back six to 10 generations. But that means if Warren’s great-great-great-grandmother were Native American, she would be considered 1/64 Native American. Should Warren’s ancestor date back 10 generations, she would be only 1/1,024 Native American.
The Cherokee Nation slammed Warren at the time, with the tribe’s secretary of state Chuck Hoskin Jr., saying the use of “a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong.”
Warren’s apology appears to be an about-face by the senator, who up until now had repeatedly defended taking the DNA test.
Asked about it on the campaign trail in Iowa – days after she launched a presidential exploratory committee on Dec. 31 – Warren said she acted in the interest of transparency.
“My decision was I’m just going to put it all out there. All my hiring records. Including the DNA test. It’s out there. It’s online. Anybody can look at it,” she explained.
The Warren campaign did not immediately respond to a request by Fox News for comment on Friday.
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Warren's effort to clean up from the DNA test rollout comes as several other big-name figures enter the 2020 race -- most recently, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker on Friday.
The DNA results also fueled claims by Republican critics that she used a trace amount of Native American heritage to advance her academic career as she did at Harvard, a school that hires based on intersectional criteria.
The test itself revealed strong evidence the Massachusetts senator had a Native-American ancestor dating back six to 10 generations. But that means if Warren’s great-great-great-grandmother were Native American, she would be considered 1/64 Native American. Should Warren’s ancestor date back 10 generations, she would be only 1/1,024 Native American.
The Cherokee Nation slammed Warren at the time, with the tribe’s secretary of state Chuck Hoskin Jr., saying the use of “a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong.”
Warren’s apology appears to be an about-face by the senator, who up until now had repeatedly defended taking the DNA test.
Asked about it on the campaign trail in Iowa – days after she launched a presidential exploratory committee on Dec. 31 – Warren said she acted in the interest of transparency.
“My decision was I’m just going to put it all out there. All my hiring records. Including the DNA test. It’s out there. It’s online. Anybody can look at it,” she explained.
The Warren campaign did not immediately respond to a request by Fox News for comment on Friday.
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