This will never go away for Pocahontas....her disgusting lies about being Native American and using that lie for personal and political gain is absolutely unconscionable....she is supposed to be a liberal who fights for the underclass, not exploit their victimhood for her own selfish reasons.
She should resign,
Elizabeth Warren’s Native American problem goes beyond politics - The Boston Globe
“The problem with Elizabeth Warren is she is not the average wannabe,” said David Cornsilk, a Cherokee historian and genealogist. “She is an academic. She has a higher level of aptitude to examine these issues. And a higher responsibility to examine them, and accept the research that is done, or to counter it with alternative research.”
Cornsilk described himself as a liberal who supports Warren’s agenda of attacking income inequality. “Warren could be an ally,” Cornsilk said. “But she will not be an ally that we will accept if she continues to claim Cherokee and Delaware heritage without proof.”
Cornsilk wants Warren to offer a full apology that acknowledges that she made claims without proof, that those claims have been damaging, and that she will work to repair that damage.
“It is a fundamental issue of who we are and who gets to decide that,” Cornsilk said.
Here is a problem with that. I have a Cherokee Heritage along with European. The Cherokee keep painstaking records of who is a Cherokee. The problem is, they excluded quite a few from those logs. If you aren't on the logs then your claim is not considered valid even if you are part Cherokee. If you can prove that you are Cherokee or a decendent of a Cherokee of a certain percentage, you get a cut in the millions that Cherokee generate each year in income for the Tribe. My sister tried to find out about this. What the Cherokee in Oklahoma said was, you may be part Native American but not Cherokee. He suggested she continue her search with the Choctaw. By omitting names from the Cherokee list, they save millions each year and don't have to pay out a dime to the ones omitted.
You can't go with what the Cherokee Nation says. It is based on lies and omissions.
Besides which --- Warren never applied for Cherokee membership anyway. She never made such a claim, yet the OP and his fellow travellers want to erect that as a strawman as well.
I happen to be Irish but I've never applied for Irish citizenship. They'd be two different things.
Then there are the census forms they'll inevitably bring up, noting ancestors self-reporting as "white" while ignoring the fact that in the genocidal era anyone who could "pass" for white did so as a matter of pure self-preservation.
She benefitted from her claim. That makes it important.
Nope. That makes it a strawman unless you can prove it.