By Douglas Ernst
The Washington Times
October 17, 2018
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has a new critic of her widely-panned DNA test: an actual descendant of Pocahontas.
Debbie White Dove Porreco appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” to discuss findings that the Massachusetts lawmaker may have between 0.09 percent to 1.5 percent American Indian ancestry. The study, which counted Mexican, Colombian, and Peruvian DNA in Ms. Warren’s favor, prompted Ms. Porreco to demand an apology.
“It did prove that she wasn’t the Cherokee Indian that she was claiming to be for so long,” she told Mr. Carlson, Townhall reported. “I think she’s guilty of claiming she’s an American Indian but has no proof — and then [is] using it for applications for college, for political reasons.”
Critics of Ms. Warren say she used claims of American Indian ancestry to better her chances of gaining employment at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. Similarly, employers touted her claims as evidence of ethnic diversity.
“When you see that Harvard Law School listed her as its first female faculty member of color — when she clearly isn’t — how do you feel?” the host asked.
“I feel betrayed because she wasn’t. She was using the name, trying to be American Indian just to rise above [others],” she replied. “She needs to … apologize to everybody for what she has done.”
The Cherokee Nation, the tribe from which Ms. Warren claimed ancestry, released a statement earlier in the week on the issue.
Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin Jr. said the lawmaker’s actions make “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.”
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Cherokee Nation GOP Congressman: Elizabeth Warren Should Apologize, "Lie" is "Backfiring On Her"
By Ian Schwartz
RealClear Politics
October 16, 2018
Oklahoma Republican U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin, an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, is calling on Sen. Elizabeth Warren to apologize for claiming Native American heritage. Mullin said he is extremely disappointment more so than offended.
"There was a 2014 scientific study and it said that the average European American walking around is 0.18% Native American. She's half of that. So, the idea that she continues to double down on this lie is the most disgusting thing to me," Mullin told 'FOX & Friends' on Tuesday.
"It's the fact that she's in the public eye and she continues to use this," he said. "And what she was trying to do is put this to bed so she could run against President Trump in 2020 and it is backfiring on her. I'm glad to see it because what she needs to do is come out and apologize to all of us."
Mullin said he lives where his tribe "stopped walking" and that it took him 90 minutes to get to the studio.
"We're not trying to play politics," Mullin said. "My family literally still live... I drove in this morning an hour and a half to get to the studio where my family literally stopped walking on the 'volunteer walk,' and I use that as a loose term. I still live on the Indian allotment land that my family has."
"The heritage runs deep in my family, for her they're just stories," he said. "They're just stories she's trying to get publicity over or she is trying to get sympathy off of or maybe it's because she was trying to get a job at Harvard. I don't know. But the lies have gone on far enough and it's time for her to apologize."
EDITOR’S NOTE: It looks as though Pocahontas may just have lost the Indian vote.
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