Over 200 real Native Americans sign letter demanding Fauxcahontas clarify her Cherokee heritage

Over 200 actual Cherokee Nation Native Americans and other tribes have written a strongly worded letter to Sen. Elizabeth Warren of the fictional Hiyaliyar Tribe (D-MA) demanding she either explain her claims about having Cherokee ancestry, or admit she speaks with forked tongue and retract her claim.

People have made "dubious" claims to having Native American ancestry for years, and according to the Los Angeles Times, "more than $800 million in government contracts reserved for minorities instead went to companies set up by members of groups with dubious claims to being Cherokee and Creek Indian tribes."

Many of the claims stem from fake or inaccurate family lore that includes "evidence" of Native American ancestry and, like Warren, results from commercially available DNA tests. In the Fauxcahontas case, her 1/1024th positive results could have come from anywhere in North or South America.

But the real proof of her Native American heritage is her MeeMaw's Pow Wow Chow recipe of crab casserole and her own high cheekbones.

But I digress. The group's letter states:

“Your history of false claims to American Indian identity and the defense of these claims with a highly publicized DNA test continue to dog your political career. For Native Americans, this moment is more than an annoyance; it represents the most public debate about our identity in a generation. In a country where Indigenous people are mostly invisible, what Americans conclude from this debate will impact Native rights for years to come.”

So yeah, Elizabeth Warren really kind of sucks and she lies like someone's Bonny over the ocean.

The letter accuses Warren of normalizing the process of “stealing” Native American ancestry to gain some form of notoriety or access to benefits reserved for Native Americans — reserved as a form of restitution for the history of mistreatment at the hands of the United States government. It's not much different than the crime of stolen valor of those of us who have served in the military.

“When you still defend yourself by stating you believed what you heard growing up, you set a harmful example for these white people stealing Native identity and resources with stories very similar to your own,” the group letter states.

Warren claims she didn't benefit from claiming Native American ancestry, but she lies so often it's virtually impossible to know the truth.

Harvard Law School listed Fauxcahontas as a member of a minority group in official publications, and Warren listed “Native American” as her ethnicity on her application for the Bar.  In effect, she stole the heritage of Native Americans.

Warren often has spoken about her family’s history with the Cherokee nation — often using racist stereotypes, like “high cheekbones,” associated with Cherokee ancestry — as evidence of her family’s Native American DNA. One would not be surprised if she claimed she only eats the meat that she kills after eating the heart of the animal and thanking the food god.

Her claims — and a subsequent DNA test in response to President Trump's trolling her into it, revealed Warren to be about as Native American as Ilhan Omar.

Warren responded to the letter late Tuesday, apologizing for her past claims of Native American ancestry.

“I was wrong to have identified as a Native American, and, without qualification or excuse, I apologize,” Warren said, though she did not, as requested, explicitly retract her claims because she knows she will never get elected President and her minority status just might score her another high paying gig.

She also distanced herself from contract abuse, lying that her “situation differs from these cases because I never benefited [from Native American ancestry] financially or professionally” [except at Harvard Law School by beating out the competition].

Leaders of the group that issued the letter noticed that Warren’s apology did not include a retraction. They told the LA Times that it’s clear Warren has “made an effort” to address the injustice but that they “hope that after further dialogue with the campaign, Warren will bravely and publicly tell the truth about her family.”

Hopefully, none of the tribe elders will hold their breath waiting for her to tell the truth, other than telling her truth.

Elizabeth Warren is actually more annoying than Hillary Clinton, a feat that is almost impossible to believe.

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