Pocahontas Steps In It

If you've been watching the hilarious travails of the Senator from Massachusetts,  Elizabeth Warren, you know that she has claimed Native American ancestry.   President Trump dubbed her Pocahontas.

Well, she got a DNA test that showed that, basically, she's a white woman and there might.  Might.  Be a little native blood in there somewhere.  Probably not as much as the average American.  But, she continues to maintain her Native status.

Now, the Cherokee Nation is disclaiming her.

"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 proven.”…

Several years ago, my sister did the research and found that we have an ancestor on the Dawes roll.  Does that make me Native American?  Not to my mind.  I have much more French, Spanish,  German, Scots-Irish, and just plain American blood running through me.

Warren should let it go.  I's not going to help her Presidential bid, and that's where this whole mockery is headed.  The Cherokees don't want her, and neither do the rest of us.

UPDATE**   John Hinderaker makes a good point{ This should be the death-knell of affirmtive action.

Here’s the point: Warren’s defense of her claim to being Native American is good for America. Because if Warren is an Indian, then so are most of the rest of us. And most of us are also African-American or Hispanic. If everyone is an Indian, then no one is an Indian. This logic is fatal to the whole corrupt affirmative action enterprise.

Indeed.