Now we find out that Elizabeth Warren really has minority status after all – that is if being 1/32 Cherokee makes one an American Indian… This reminds me of an excellent novel I read in my college years titled Kingsblood Royal, by Sinclair Lewis.
The following teaser is from the USnews.com website, dated May 2, 2012:
Just in case anyone was concerned that the did-she-or-didn’t-she flap over whether or not Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren used a claim of minority status to advance her career was based on a lie, a Massachusetts genealogist has the answer: it wasn’t.
According to Christopher Child of the New England Historic and Genealogy Society, a document from 1894 confirms Warren’s great-great-great grandmother was a Cherokee. That would make Warren 1/32 American Indian, according to media reports.
