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Genealogist says Warren may be able to claim Cherokee heritage; Brown and Warren campaigns continue to trade barbs

A record unearthed Monday shows that Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has a great-great-great grandmother listed in an 1894 document as a Cherokee, said a genealogist at the New England Historic and Genealogy Society. The latest shred of evidence could validate her claim that she has Native American ancestry, making her 1/32 American Indian, but may not put an end to the questions swirling ...

Genealogist: Document supports Native American claim by US Senate candidate Warren in Mass.

BOSTON - A genealogist in Massachusetts has uncovered evidence that Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren does have Native American heritage as she claims.

Warren is part Cherokee, Genealogist Says

Dem. Senate candidate is part American Indian

Cherokee Genealogist Blasts Senate Candidate Elizabeth Warren for Bogus Native American Heritage Claim

Is Elizabeth Warren still a viable candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts? Warren, the presumptive Democrat nominee against incumbent Senator Scott Brown, the Republican, looks increasingly bad based on her unsubstantiated claims of Native American heritage. Elizabeth Warren insists that she is 1/32 Cherokee, but there is no corroboration of the validity of this claim. [...] Cherokee ...

Was it right for Elizabeth Warren to identify as a minority? Will voters care?

A genealogist is supporting Elizabeth Warren's claim of Cherokee ancestry. But what could linger with voters is whether it's right for someone who is 1/32 native American to claim minority status.