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1/8/2013

article Sen. Warren not listed among Native Americans
(Washington D.C.) -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren's Native American heritage sparked a major dust-up in the Massachusetts Senate campaign last year. Now, the newly sworn-in...

1/7/2013

article Liz won’t beat drum / After touting her heritage ...
(Massachusetts) -- Despite repeated claims she is “proud” of her Cherokee heritage, newly minted U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is keeping that pride under wraps...

12/25/2012

article OP/ED: Cherished family lore could be in doubt
(California) -- I am descended from an American Indian tribe of Massachusetts, perhaps Wampanoag, maybe Nipmuk or Nauset. Three Morse brothers sailed from England and...

12/17/2012

article Limbaugh: ‘Elizabeth Warren, Heap Big Squaw Indian Giver’
(Washington D.C.) -- On December 13, the always controversial conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh made sure he was clear about his comments in regards to Massachusetts...

12/16/2012

article Limbaugh: Elizabeth Warren is ‘Heap Big Squaw Indian Giver’
(USA) -- Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Thursday referred to Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren as “Heap Big Squaw Indian Giver,” confirming that he...

11/6/2012

article Elizabeth Warren defeats Scott Brown
(Massachusetts) -- Elizabeth Ann Warren, a fierce consumer advocate who galvanized liberals across the nation, defeated Senator Scott Brown on Tuesday, avenging the...

11/3/2012

article How Elizabeth Warren staged her comeback
(Massachusetts) -- Elizabeth Warren arrived at her party’s national convention two months ago a potential Democratic debacle in the making — deadlocked in...

11/2/2012

article MORON ALERT: Controversy Over Haverhill Scott Brown ‘Not An Indian’ Sign
(Massachusetts) -- A political sign is sparking controversy in Haverhill. A businessman put up a sign on his building that reads, “Re-elect Scott Brown, Lt. Col US...

10/11/2012

article OP/ED: The Elizabeth Warren Situation Is More Complicated Than Many Think
(Minnesota) -- A ton of ink has been spilled on the subject of the Elizabeth Warren run for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. Most of the writing on the Indian side of...
article Warren-Brown Third Debate: Massachusetts Candidates Talk Issues, Not Claims to Native Heritage
(Massachusetts) -- In their third senate debate that took place October 10, Incumbent U. S. Sen. Scott Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren did not descend...

10/8/2012

article Massachusetts Republican Party mailer accuses Elizabeth Warren of '25 years of deception and cover-ups'
(Massachusetts) -- The Massachusetts Republican Party has sent out a scathing mailer accusing Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren of “25 years of...
article NCAI calls for civility in Massachusetts Senate race
(Washington D.C.) -- The National Congress of American Indians has called for “civility” in light of developments in the Massachusetts Senate race between...

10/7/2012

article BLOG: Dear Elizabeth Warren: I know kids who would ask their parents for proof of their identity
(Illinois) -- Yesterday (September 24, 2012), Elizabeth Warren responded to Scott Brown's attack on her heritage by putting out an ad in which she rhetorically asks...
article BLOG: Why the Elizabeth Warren Issue Is Not About Her Race
(Oklahoma) -- As Elizabeth Warren supporters, including Deval Patrick, throw out terms like racism and “birther” in this hotly contested race for the Senate...

10/6/2012

article Black clergy in Boston endorse Warren
(Massachusetts) -- Some of Boston’s most prominent African-American ministers put their support behind Elizabeth Warren Thursday and denounced Senator Scott Brown...
article Column: 'Minority' claim still dogs Warren thanks to her own mishandling
(Massachusetts) -- It is the issue that will not go away. For two debates in a row in the hotly contested U.S. Senate fight between incumbent Sen. Scott Brown and...

10/5/2012

article Brown fights back over Patrick’s ‘birther’ slap
(Massachusetts) -- U.S. Sen. Scott Brown dismissed Gov. Deval Patrick’s claim that he’s a “Bay State birther” because Brown is demanding...
article Deval Patrick: Scott Brown is ‘Bay State birther’
(Massachusetts) -- Republican Sen. Scott Brown has become a “Bay State birther” after his repeated attacks on Elizabeth Warren’s purported Native...
article Elizabeth Warren, Scott Brown, and the Myth of Race
(Massachusetts) -- If as David Axelrod once said, “Campaigns are like an MRI for the soul,” then what do we see when we peer into the campaigns of...
article Gov. Patrick: Sen. Brown ‘Bay State Birther’ For Warren Native American Ads
(Massachusetts) -- Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is calling Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown “a Bay State birther” for running television campaign ads...

10/4/2012

article Warren discusses Native American ancestry
(Massachusetts) -- David Gregory of "Meet the Press" started off the Senate debate by asking Elizabeth Warren about her Native American heritage. Warren noted...
article Why the Native American heritage fight isn’t hurting Elizabeth Warren
(Massachusetts) -- Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren’s claim to Native American heritage has been the focus of three recent TV ads, the first ten...

10/1/2012

article Poll: Warren leads Sen. Brown, but faces challenges in Mass. Senate race
(Massachusetts) -- Elizabeth Warren leads Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) by 5 percentage points in a new poll, with 43 percent support to Brown's 38. However, a...
article Why the Native American heritage fight isn’t hurting Elizabeth Warren
(Massachusetts) -- Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren’s claim to Native American heritage has been the focus of three recent TV ads, the first ten...

9/30/2012

article Commentary: What Advantage Hath the American Indian?
(Michigan) -- After the disclosure of the videotape that captured US Senator Scott Brown's senatorial staff and campaign workers as they attempted to bring attention...
article Native Americans chafe at Brown-Warren race
(Massachusetts) -- For the first time that Laurie Weahkee can remember, Native American heritage has become an issue in national politics. Under other circumstances,...
article OP/ED: The Only Racism on Display Has Been From the Elizabeth Warren Camp
(Georgia) -- The squall of outrage that has erupted in the 72 hours since footage of Massachusetts GOP Senate campaign staffers pantomiming the “tomahawk chop...
article TREUER: Kill the Indians, Then Copy Them
(Minnesota) -- JUST over a week ago, a handful of Senator Scott P. Brown’s supporters gathered in Boston to protest his opponent, Elizabeth Warren.

9/29/2012

article COLUMN: Brown supporters’ fun not funny to Native American
(Massachusetts) -- It’s a good thing Bruce Oakes wasn’t at his usual haunt last week when a group of overly enthusiastic Scott Brown supporters started ­...
article Elizabeth Warren appears to inch ahead of Scott Brown in new Globe poll, 43 - 38
(Massachusetts) -- With Elizabeth Warren and Senator Scott Brown preparing for their second debate Monday night, Warren appears to be inching ahead in the highly...
article ‘Tomahawk chop’ pops up in Mass. Senate race after history in arenas, activists’ crosshairs
(Massachusetts) -- The manager of the Atlanta Braves sees it as a harmless way to fire up his team. A spokesman for the Navajo Nation’s president says it’s a...

9/28/2012

article Everything you need to know about Elizabeth Warren’s claim of Native American heritage
(Massachusetts) -- Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) has focused his campaign’s attention back on the self-proclaimed Native American heritage of his Democratic...
article Scott Brown hits Elizabeth Warren’s Native American claim in new ad
(Massachusetts) -- Senator Scott Brown enlists the help of unidentified men and women in a new TV ad that questions Democratic rival Elizabeth Warren’s claim of...
article The fight over Elizabeth Warren’s heritage, explained
(Massachusetts) -- Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren have spent the last six days trading blows over an issue that first emerged in...
article HERRINGTON: I'm Native American, Senator Brown
(USA) -- Do I look Native American to you, Senator Brown? I am. According to my family tradition, I'm 1/16 Cherokee and 1/8 Choctaw. Now, according to the various...
article PETERS: A Cherokee princess in every family
(Massachusetts) -- Growing up American Indian, I wish I had a quarter for everyone who gushed to me about being "part Indian," because I'd have enough...

9/27/2012

article Scott Brown Apologizes for ‘Tomahawk Chop’ Video
(Massachusetts) -- Sen. Scott Brown (R-Massachusetts) issued an apology on Wednesday for a video of his staffers making war whoops and performing tomahawk chops during a...
article War Whoops Heard In 2nd Video Of Brown Campaigning
(Massachusetts) -- A second video has surfaced showing Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown speaking to supporters while war whoops can be heard in the background.
article BLOG: Scott Brown Says He ‘Regrets’ His Staff’s ‘Unacceptable’ Behavior
(Massachusetts) -- Senator Scott P. Brown’s campaign issued a statement Wednesday evening saying he “regrets” what he called “unacceptable...
article BLOG: Why Giago Is Wrong: Parsing the Nuances of Ethnic Fraud
(Oklahoma) -- Last Tuesday, nominally progressive online news vehicle The Huffington Post published a disappointing and misinformed article by Tim Giago, president of...
article Cherokee Nation Demands Scott Brown Apologize For 'Downright Racist' Taunts
(Oklahoma) -- The chief of the Cherokee Nation on Wednesday demanded an apology from Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) for what he called an "uneducated, unenlightened and...
article Giant Scott Brown Lawn Sign Mocks Warren's Heritage
(Massachusetts) -- Well, even in Massachusetts there are Obama birthers and now we have Scott Brown supporters getting in on the fun of attacking heritage with massive...
article NCAI Characterizes Massachusetts Senate Campaign as “Extremely Disturbing”
(Washington D.C.) -- The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) issued the following statement in the wake of recent developments in the Massachusetts Senate...

9/26/2012

article Brown campaign calls behavior ‘unacceptable’
(Massachusetts) -- Senator Scott Brown’s campaign on Wednesday night issued a statement calling the behavior of some staffers “unacceptable,” as a...
article More fallout from viral video of Brown supporters
(Massachusetts) -- As the video of Scott Brown supporters and staff doing the tomahawk chop and "war whooping" outside a weekend rally has gone viral, another...
article Native Americans: Brown's smear campaign on Warren spiraling out of control
(Massachusetts) -- Staffers of Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) were caught on tape mocking Elizabeth Warren for her claims of Native American ancestry by making "war...
article Scott Brown Says He ‘Regrets’ His Staff’s ‘Unacceptable’ Behavior
(Massachusetts) -- Senator Scott P. Brown’s campaign issued a statement Wednesday evening saying he “regrets” what he called “unacceptable...
article Scott Brown warns staff over war whoops
(Massachusetts) -- U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., warned his staff against a repeat of anything like the Indian war whoops at a recent rally, his campaign said...
article Second war whooping video prompts further candidate sparring
(Massachusetts) -- New video posted on a liberal blog on Wednesday showed Sen. Scott Brown speaking at an event while war whooping is going on in the background.
article Cherokee chief condemns war whoops, tomahawk chops in Massachusetts senate race
(Oklahoma) -- War whoops chants and tomahawk chops used to taunt a Massachusetts U.S. Senate candidate are racist and offensive, Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Bill...
article Cherokee chief: Scott Brown staffers ‘racist’
(Oklahoma) -- The head of the Cherokee Nation called staffers for Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown “downright racist” Wednesday for making “tomahawk chop...
article Cherokee Group Chief Angry Over Brown Staffers' War Whoops Has Liberal Ties
(Oklahoma) -- The Cherokee Nation waded yet again into the controversy over Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's ancestry Wednesday, decrying her...
article Senator Scott Brown’s Racist and Anti-Indian Campaign Rallies
(Massachusetts) -- Hold that thought, please—indulge me for a few minutes while we talk about discrimination, outrage and offensive behavior.

9/25/2012

article BLOG: Brown's attacks on Warren's alleged heritage backfire
(Massachusetts) -- The American Indian attacks on Elizabeth Warren from conservatives and Republicans have finally blown up in Scott Brown’s face. Brown could only...
article BLOG: Elizabeth Warren: Is she or isn't she Native American?
(Massachusetts) -- Writer Mark Trahant guessed the situation was a first: campaign jabs that centered on a candidate's claim of Native American roots. He was...
article Brown, Warren renew fight over Native American heritage controversy
(Massachusetts) -- The gloves are officially off in one of the most tightly contested Senate races of the year, with Sen. Scott Brown bringing personal attacks to the...
article Elections 2012: Massachusetts Debate and Elizabeth Warren’s Native Kinship
(Massachusetts) -- This has to be a first: Dueling campaign ads about whether Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has any Native American roots.
article Elizabeth Warren ‘appalled’ by actions of GOP staffers
(Massachusetts) -- At least two Republican staffers, including a member of Scott Brown’s US Senate office, apparently mocked Elizabeth Warren’s claims to...
article Elizabeth Warren: What Native Americans have said about controversy
(USA) -- The continued controversy over Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's claims of Native American ancestry have overshadowed other issues. Here...
article In Massachusetts, Brown Attacks Warren’s Character
(Massachusetts) -- Video emerged on Tuesday showing supporters of Senator Scott P. Brown making tomahawk gestures with their arms and yelling Indian war whoops at...
article Brown disavows tomahawk chop video
(Massachusetts) -- Staff members for Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown and the state Republican Party are seen in a new video shouting war whoops and performing tomahawk...
article Brown Distances Himself from Controversial YouTube Video
(Massachusetts) -- The race for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts continues to produce more story lines, including a new video where Brown supporters and a staffer from the...
article Brown: ‘No place’ for tomahawk chop video in campaign
(Massachusetts) -- Now it’s Sen. Scott Brown whose campaign finds itself in a Native American controversy. Some Brown supporters were caught on camera apparently...
article Elizabeth Warren 'mocked with Native American gestures'
(Massachusetts) -- Two political aides have been accused of making offensive gestures linked to Native Americans to poke fun at a US Massachusetts senator's...
article Report: Brown Staffers Make ‘Tomahawk Chop’ Motions At Warren Supporters
(Massachusetts) -- Staffers for Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) reportedly participated in war-whoop sounds and “tomahawk chop” gestures at supporters of Democratic...
article Report: Scott Brown aides ‘tomahawk chop’
(Massachusetts) -- Staffers for Sen. Scott Brown’s made tomahawk chopping motions and made stereotypical Native American “war whoop” sounds during a...
article Scott Brown Staffers Mock Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Native Identity’ With ‘Tomahawk Chops’ on Video
(Massachusetts) -- On Tuesday the issue of Elizabeth Warren’s Native identity turned ugly. A Boston CBS station, WCVB, reported that staffers for Brown chanted...
article Sen. Brown staffers make 'war whoops' and 'tomahawk chops' at campaign rally
(Massachusetts) -- Staffers for Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) can be seen chanting Native American "war whoops" and making "tomahawk chops" during a...

9/24/2012

article Brown uses Warren's heritage issue in T.V. spot
(Massachusetts) -- Questions over Elizabeth Warren's claims of Native American heritage were revived by her rival for U.S. Senate Monday in a television ad...
article Elizabeth Warren in new TV ad: I ‘never got any benefit because of my heritage’
(Massachusetts) -- Elizabeth Warren never asked for nor received an advantage from employers in connection with her heritage, the Democratic Senate candidate says in a...
article In Massachusetts Brown, Warren release competing heritage ads
(Massachusetts) -- Republican US Sen. Scott Brown on Monday launched a new television ad highlighting Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren's claims of Native...
article New Elizabeth Warren ad responds to Scott Brown's attacks on Native American issue
(Massachusetts) -- Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren responded to a TV ad attacking her use of her Native American ancestry with her own ad that directly...
article Scott Brown attacks Elizabeth Warren for use of Native American heritage with new TV ad
(Massachusetts) -- There’s no more Mr. and Mrs. Nice Guy in the Massachusetts U.S. Senate race. After Democratic Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren released a...
article Scott Brown’s new TV ad hits Elizabeth Warren over her claim to Native American heritage
(Massachusetts) -- Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) released a TV ad Monday that draws attention to Democrat Elizabeth Warren’s claim to Native American heritage,...
article Tough new ad shows Sen. Brown going on offense in Mass. Senate race
(Massachusetts) -- Two new ads out from Sen. Scott Brown's (R-Mass.) campaign illustrate the contrasting two-part strategy the senator is launching as he remains...
article Warren responds to criticism over heritage in ad
(Massachusetts) -- The same day her rival hammered her in a political ad for her claims to Native American heritage, Elizabeth Warren fired back in an ad of her own,...

9/22/2012

article OP/ED: Democratic National Convention 2012: Blackface Runs Red
(Georgia) -- Digesting the broadcast of this month’s Democratic National Convention, one was reminded of an expertly polished minstrel show. With all of that...

9/21/2012

article Massachusetts Senate debate begins with discussion of Warren’s Cherokee heritage
(Massachusetts) -- The first official debate between Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown and his Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren began Thursday with a...
article US Sen. Scott Brown Confronts Elizabeth Warren on Her American Indian Claims
(Massachusetts) -- In his most direct shots against U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, R-Massachusetts, challenged her claims of Native...

9/20/2012

article Brown Uses Debate To Attack Warren’s Native American Heritage Claim
(Massachusetts) -- Senator Brown used the first question of Thursday’s Massachusetts US Senate debate on WBZ-TV to go after opponent Elizabeth Warren’s...
article In crucial first debate, Scott Brown challenges Warren’s Native American heritage claim
(Massachusetts) -- Republican US Senator Scott Brown questioned Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren’s claim of Native American heritage in the opening moments...
article In first debate, Scott Brown hits Elizabeth Warren on Cherokee claim
(Massachusetts) -- Republican Sen. Scott Brown wasted no time lacing into Elizabeth Warren over her controversial claim of Native American heritage Thursday night,...
article Scott Brown Rips Warren For Native American Claim At Senate Debate
(Massachusetts) -- Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) at Thursday's debate with Elizabeth Warren: I think character is important. I think what you’re referring to is...

9/18/2012

article Elizabeth Warren takes narrow lead in Massachusetts Senate polls
(Massachusetts) -- She’s been accused of dressing like a schoolmarm, wagging her finger too often and misstating her Native American roots. But for the first time...

9/17/2012

article John McCain: Elizabeth Warren’s indian claims ’bizarre’
(Massachusetts) -- U.S. Sen. John McCain — who endorsed U.S. Sen. Scott Brown this weekend — poked fun at Elizabeth Warren’s claim to a Native American...

9/15/2012

article Elizabeth Warren’s family has mixed memories about heritage
(Massachusetts) -- As a child growing up in rural Arizona, Ina Mapes remembers her mother as a highly discreet woman who rarely expressed her personal feelings except...

9/10/2012

article Elizabeth Warren tricked into signing Native American cookbook
(Massachusetts) -- The Scott Brown campaign is sending around a video of Elizabeth Warren autographing the "Pow Wow Chow" Native American cookbook to which she...

9/9/2012

article OP/ED: Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Rape’ Fantasy: Perverting Feminism for Personal Convenience
(Oklahoma) -- It is a widely accepted prescript of conventional wisdom that the Democratic Party operates as the singularly reliable agent of contemporary American...
article OP/ED: Harvard and Elizabeth Warren Are Low on Ethics
(Oklahoma) -- As an enrolled member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma; 1981 alumna of the Harvard Graduate School of Education; veteran scholastic administrator; and...

9/8/2012

article BLOG: Elizabeth Warren claims has released college and law school applications
(New York) -- Elizabeth Warren appeared yesterday on the Jim and Margery radio show in Boston. There were two significant points raised regarding the Cherokee...

9/6/2012

article COMMENTARY: On the Warpath Against Warren
(North Carolina) -- In a Democratic Convention that featured a seemingly endless stream of speakers throwing red meat to the liberal base of the party in attendance at...
article Hanson business owner lampoons Elizabeth Warren
(Massachusetts) -- The local merchant who put controversial anti-Obama signs outside his store has added two placards showing U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren in a...

9/5/2012

article Elizabeth Warren campaign says Native American Council has not sought meeting to discuss heritage claim
(North Carolina) -- Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren’s campaign said Tuesday that the Democratic National Convention’s Native American Council has not asked...
article Elizabeth Warren passes on chance to meet with Native American Dems
(North Carolina) -- Native American Democrats who hoped to meet with Democratic U.S. Senate challenger Elizabeth Warren got the brush-off yesterday, depriving them of a...
article For Warren, Bad Blood Over Ethnic Claims
(North Carolina) -- Karen Geronimo, a member of the Mescalero Apache tribe in town for the Democratic convention, knows what she wants from Elizabeth Warren, the Senate...

9/4/2012

article Before politics, Elizabeth Warren thrived at Penn Law
(Pennsylvania) -- Not many people get to share a stage with former President Bill Clinton, but former Law School professor Elizabeth Warren will be one of them.
article Cherokees use GOP video to target Elizabeth Warren claims
(North Carolina) -- Massachusetts Republicans looking to overshadow Elizabeth Warren’s turn in the national spotlight are releasing a video with Cherokees at a...
article Elizabeth Warren Facing Criticism at Democratic National Convention from American Indian Delegates
(North Carolina) -- With the Democratic National Convention (DNC) kicking off today, U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren is facing criticism from several American...
article Warren at DNC, ignores Native American questions
(North Carolina) -- Elizabeth Warren, scrambling to shift focus from her ongoing Cherokee scandal, dismissed demands from Native Americans who want her to explain her...

9/3/2012

article Indian delegates seek sit-down with Elizabeth Warren
(North Carolina) -- Elizabeth Warren can’t escape her Cherokee heritage controversy even at this gathering of loyal Democrats, as a contingent of skeptical...

8/23/2012

article OP/ED: Elizabeth Warren and the Politics of Spiritual Genocide
(Georgia) -- The humid days of late summer have always been a difficult time of year for me. The purple August sunsets have acquired a valedictory undertone in the...

8/10/2012

article ICTMN’s Rob Capriccioso Discusses Elizabeth Warren and Native American Identity on NPR
(Washington D.C.) -- The NPR radio show Tell Me More has interviewed ICTMN’s Washington Bureau Chief Rob Capriccioso about the questions of Indian identity raised...

8/9/2012

article Who Gets To Decide Who Is Native American?
(USA) -- A controversy about identity has erupted in the race for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. News outlets revealed Democrat Elizabeth Warren claimed Cherokee ancestry...

7/17/2012

article Brown camp pressing Warren for law school records
(Massachusetts) -- U.S. Sen. Scott Brown’s campaign this afternoon demanded that rival Elizabeth Warren unveil a new law school record to prove she didn’t...

7/9/2012

article Column: Cherokee conspiracy
(Massachusetts) -- Not so many moons ago, Elizabeth Warren was the toast of the national Democratic Party, a perfect vessel for so many of its various constituencies...

7/3/2012

article More Questions About Warren’s Native American Heritage Claims
(Massachusetts) -- There are more questions about Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren’s claims of Native American ancestry. Cherokee genealogist Twyla Barnes of...

7/2/2012

article New document questions Elizabeth Warren's Native American ancestry
(Massachusetts) -- Another document has surfaced calling into question Elizabeth Warren's claims of Native American heritage. U.S. Senator Scott Brown wants her to...

7/1/2012

article In Mass. Senate race, a battle over transparency
(Boston) -- Both candidates in the closely watched Senate race in Massachusetts have championed public disclosure - but each has limits when it comes to their own...

6/23/2012

article Elizabeth Warren's Birthday Gift From GOP: An Ancestry.com Account
(Massachusetts) -- Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren turns 63 today, and among her birthday gifts is one she probably won't appreciate very much.
article Of Right Wings and Indians: Warren Staff Circles Their Wagons
(Georgia) -- Is there a doctor in the house? No? Well, somebody telephone the paramedics because Elizabeth Warren’s already demonstrably impaired capacity to...

6/22/2012

article Scott Brown: I meet with kings, queens daily
(Massachusetts) -- Sen. Scott Brown raised eyebrows by saying in a radio interview Thursday that he has “secret meetings with kings and queens” and other...

6/21/2012

article Cherokees leave Boston after Liz Warren snub
(Massachusetts) -- Four Cherokee activists, who hoped to confront Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren over her Native American claims, are heading home today...
article MONTEAU: Elizabeth Warren: Of Blood and Money
(Massachusetts) -- It has been interesting to follow the media frenzy with regard to Elizabeth Warren and her use of “self-suspected” Indian ancestry to...
article Warren Seeks to Move Past Cherokee Roots in Senate Race
(Massachusetts) -- There are topics Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren says she wants to talk about in her campaign, including Wall Street and Big Oil. And...

6/20/2012

article Cherokee Women Try to Meet With Elizabeth Warren; Campaign Offends Them
(Massachusetts) -- If U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren was telling the truth back in May when she said that she listed herself as an American Indian minority in...
article Elizabeth Warren's claims to Cherokee lineage damage heritage, Portland activist says
(Oregon) -- Ellen Goss of Portland and three other Cherokee activists want you to know that Cherokees never lived in Teepees and never hunted buffalo.
article Liz Warren camp says Cherokee activists tied to senator
(Massachusetts) -- Four Cherokee activists, who are in Boston to force a meeting with Elizabeth Warren over her Native American heritage claims, will sit down with U.S....

6/19/2012

article Cherokee women to Elizabeth Warren: Stop ducking us!
(Massachusetts) -- On their first day in the Hub, a group of Cherokees hoping to confront Elizabeth Warren over her Native American heritage claims blasted the Democrat...
article Cherokee women travel to Boston to confront Elizabeth Warren
(Massachusetts) -- Three Cherokee women who traveled to Boston this week to confront US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren over her claims to Native American ancestry say...

6/18/2012

article Cherokee, Warren showdown / Tribe activists find Liz claim ‘offensive’
(Massachusetts) -- Four outraged Cherokee activists who say Elizabeth Warren’s campaign has ignored their emails and phone calls will trek to Boston this week in...
article Elizabeth Warren outspends Scott Brown as Massachusetts Senate candidates advertise early and often
(Massachusetts) -- Massachusetts voters who want to enjoy summer vacation without hearing from Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown or Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren...

6/17/2012

article George Mason: What defines an American Indian?
(Maryland) -- Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Senate candidate, is both criticized and supported for claiming to be one thirty-second Native American, based on family...

6/16/2012

article Column: Elizabeth Warren's 'Native American' claims: if she was a Republican, the media would call her a racist
(UK) -- Imagine if a Republican candidate claimed, confidently, that she was part Native American. Imagine if she had actually used that identity to have herself listed...

6/15/2012

article COLUMN: Scott Brown stuck in neutral
(Massachusetts) -- May I ask one simple question: What in this wide and wonderful world is Scott Brown thinking? Our junior senator is, as everyone in Massachusetts well...

6/14/2012

article Warren: ‘The Boston Herald is the Boston Herald’
(Washington) -- Democrat Elizabeth Warren insisted the majority of voters don’t care about the controversy over her Native American heritage claims and blamed the...
article Woman while white: why Elizabeth Warren became 'Princess Cheekbones'
(USA) -- Elizabeth Warren has yet to really explain it, i.e., why it is she decided to become a Cherokee, by allowing Harvard to consider her, and promote her, as a...

6/12/2012

article Elizabeth Warren's Native American critics say they will continue fight despite candidate's latest statements
(Massachusetts) -- Following a month-long period during which Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren was said to have the "worst week in Washington"...

6/11/2012

article BLOG: Native American and Harvard Alum Blasts Warren, Harvard
(Massachusetts) -- A registered Native American and alumna of Harvard has co-authored a column denouncing Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren and Harvard...
article Dead heat in Mass. Senate race as ads crank up
(Massachusetts) -- The contenders for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts both released new television ads Monday, with Republican Sen. Scott Brown placing the focus on his...
article LETTER: Most voters don't care about Warren's heritage
(Massachusetts) -- Enough already! Sen. Scott Brown's campaign apparently has nothing of more substance to discuss than Elizabeth Warren's checking a box or two...
article OP/ED: We Should Denounce the Conduct of Harvard and Elizabeth Warren
(USA) -- As an enrolled member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma, 1981 alumna of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, veteran scholastic administrator, and lifelong...

6/9/2012

article Column: Elizabeth Warren compounds her problem
(Massachusetts) -- Elizabeth Warren fessed up this week and admitted telling Harvard Law School officials she was a Native American. Actually, it wasn’t quite a...

6/7/2012

article NPR: Proving Native American Ancestry Can Be Tricky
(Massachusetts) -- Many people claim Native American ancestry. Their reasons vary, and so do the requirements to prove ancestry. Author David Treuer and freelance...

6/5/2012

article It's Personal: Why Scott Brown Is Skating but Elizabeth Warren Is Tripping on Character Questions
(Massachusetts) -- How should voters assess a candidate's integrity? Inconsistency and double-talk on policy questions would be a good place to start.
article Poll Shows Independents Care About Warren’s Native Fiasco
(Massachusetts) -- While some political spectators, including those within the Democratic campaign of Massachusetts U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, have said...
article Warren Gaffes on Native American Roots Enflame Senate Race in Massachusetts
(Massachusetts) -- Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown and his Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren are still deadlocked in recent polls, but their campaigns may both be...

6/4/2012

article EDITORIAL: Ancestry isn't the issue in Warren race
(Massachusetts) -- The flap over Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren's claim of Native American ancestry would be a tempest in a teepee if, that is, the Cherokee...
article Elizabeth Warren’s Cherokee Nation
(Massachusetts) -- Elizabeth Warren, who on Saturday claimed the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate from Massachusetts, still has Indian trouble. Her claim to...
article Elizabeth Warren’s Family Ties
(Massachusetts) -- On Saturday, in Springfield, Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren officially became the Democratic nominee in the race for the Senate seat currently held...
article Ministers skeptical on Elizabeth Warren
(Massachusetts) -- Dogged by weeks of questions about whether her claims of Native American heritage helped advance her career, Elizabeth Warren now faces skepticism...
article STOCKMAN: Elizabeth Warren’s Wetumka Roots
(Massachusetts) -- In 1997, the media told Madeleine Albright something about herself that she swears she didn’t know: Her parents were Jews who converted to...

6/3/2012

article BLOG: Letter from A Reader
(Georgia) -- As a proudly enrolled member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma; 1981 alumna of the Harvard Graduate School of Education; veteran scholastic administrator; and...
article BLOG: The Myth of Native American Blood
(Massachusetts) -- The African-American grandmother of a friend of mine once summed up the laws that govern black identity in this country. "If you ever want to...

6/2/2012

article Cherokees hammer Elizabeth Warren on ancestry claim ahead of Mass. party convention
(Massachusetts) -- As Massachusetts Democrats meet at their nominating convention today, some members of the Cherokee Nation are stepping up a campaign to get answers...
article SAMPSON: Cherokee Protesting Elizabeth Warren at Democratic Convention is a Waste of Time
(USA) -- Recently, representatives of the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes (the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and the...

6/1/2012

article Elizabeth Warren makes emotional defense of Native American background after arriving in Springfield for Massachusetts Democratic convention
(Massachusetts) -- U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren passionately defended her Native American heritage, after reaching Springfield by train today for the state...
article Elizabeth Warren Tries To Put Heritage Controversy Behind Her
(Massachusetts) -- Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren is continuing to try to put a controversy regarding her claims of Native American heritage behind her.
article For Elizabeth Warren, a bump becomes a hurdle
(Massachusetts) -- It started as a one-day story, a chuckle on conservative talk radio in Boston. In late April, the Boston Herald reported that Democratic Senate...
article Native Americans threaten protest against Elizabeth Warren
(Massachusetts) -- Some Native Americans are coming forward to tell senate candidate Elizabeth Warren they are angry about the way she has handled talk about her...
article Scott Brown Campaign: Elizabeth Warren Should Reach Out to Natives
(Massachusetts) -- The campaign of U.S. Senator Scott Brown, Republican of Massachusetts, has done something that Elizabeth Warren, his main Democratic challenger for...
article Senate contender Warren denies using ethnicity for unfair gain
(Massachusetts) -- U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has acknowledged for the first time she told two prestigious law schools she had a Native American heritage but...
article THE HILL: Warren admits she's 'concerned' about her campaign in wake of heritage controversy
(Massachusetts) -- Elizabeth Warren admitted Thursday that she was "concerned" about her U.S. Senate campaign after repeated stumbles in addressing the...
article Warren discusses response to heritage questions
(Massachusetts) -- Massachusetts Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren said Friday that she didn’t reveal until this week that she told past employers...
article Warren: No Proof Of Native American Heritage Because Dad’s Family Opposed It
(Massachusetts) -- U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren once again attempted to put the controversy over her Native American heritage to bed on Friday.
article Warren: ‘I won’t deny who I am’
(Massachusetts) -- She has given clumsy answers, evaded questions, and for five weeks running allowed the story of her undocumented Native American ancestry to consume...
article Who Cares About Elizabeth Warren's Heritage Controversy? No One.
(Massachusetts) -- For the last month, Elizabeth Warren has been stuck in controversy over her Native American heritage, specifically the fact that she received benefits...

5/31/2012

article Axelrod: 'No concerns' about Warren
(Washington D.C.) -- David Axelrod gave a vote of confidence to Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren on Thursday, declaring in Boston he had "no concerns...
article BOSTON GLOBE: Character question
(Massachusetts) -- Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has come up with yet another version of who knew what about her alleged Native American heritage.
article Cherokee group to protest Elizabeth Warren outside state Democratic convention in Springfield
(Massachusetts) -- A group of protesters led by Cherokee Indians upset about Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's heritage claims are planning to...
article Cherokees to protest Warren at convention
(Massachusetts) -- Cherokees angered by Elizabeth Warren’s claims of Native American heritage said today they’ll stand in silent protest against the...
article CILLIZZA: What Elizabeth Warren did wrong
(Washington D.C.) -- Elizabeth Warren’s acknowledgment Wednesday night that she had formally informed both Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania...
article Deval Patrick: ‘I don’t care’ about Elizabeth Warren heritage flap
(Massachusetts) -- Gov. Deval Patrick this morning defended embattled Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren and blasted his predecessor in a feisty visit to the Jim and...
article Elizabeth Warren admits she told schools she was Native American
(Massachusetts) -- Late Wednesday night, Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren answered a question that has been dogging her for weeks, admitting that she told...
article Elizabeth Warren Avoids American Indian Media
(Washington D.C.) -- As the controversy continues to swirl around U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren’s self-reported Cherokee ancestry, she has dodged several...
article Full statement by Elizabeth Warren on ancestry
(Massachusetts) -- Growing up, my mother and my grandparents and my aunts and uncles often talked about our family’s Native American heritage. As a kid, I never...
article House Dem: Warren response on heritage 'like water torture'
(Washington D.C.) -- Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren (D) has badly botched questions surrounding her Native American heritage and the issue is damaging...
article Sen. Brown Still Questioning Authenticity of Elizabeth Warren’s Native American Claims
(Massachusetts) -- During a visit in Springfield Thursday, Mass. Senator Scott Brown questioned not only the authenticity of challenger Elizabeth Warren’s Native...
article THE HILL: Warren demands an apology from opponent in heritage controversy
(Massachusetts) -- Elizabeth Warren demanded an apology from Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) Thursday after she said the lawmaker suggested she should not have taken her...
article Tribe-ulations for Liz Warren as cherokees plan protest
(Massachusetts) -- Native Americans — outraged by Elizabeth Warren’s admission yesterday that she told her Ivy League bosses about her purported tribal roots...
article Warren camp seeks to ease backer worry
(Massachusetts) -- A day after Elizabeth Warren acknowledged that she told two Ivy League schools she was Native American, her campaign began scrambling to allay the...
article Warren Says She Informed Universities of Ancestry
(Massachusetts) -- Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren publicly disclosed for the first time that she told Harvard University and the University of...

5/30/2012

article Boston Globe Columnist Steps Up Warren Criticism
(Massachusetts) -- The Boston Herald has routinely attacked Elizabeth Warren in columns and op-eds since the paper first reported in April that she listed herself as...
article Elizabeth Warren acknowledges telling Harvard, Penn of Native American status
(Massachusetts) -- Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren acknowledged for the first time late Wednesday night that she told Harvard University and the University...
article Gov. Deval Patrick endorses Elizabeth Warren for Senate ahead of state Democratic convention
(Massachusetts) -- Democratic Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick endorsed Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren in a campaign email on Wednesday, just days before she squares...
article Cherokees launch website targeting Elizabeth Warren over Native American heritage claims
(Massachusetts) -- The latest wave in the ocean of controversy over Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's heritage claims involves a group of Cherokees...
article Elizabeth Warren challenged by Cherokee group
(Massachusetts) -- A group of Cherokees have organized and launched a website disputing Elizabeth Warren’s claims to Native American heritage.

5/29/2012

article How many people are at least 1/32 Native American?
(Colorado) -- Elizabeth Warren, the U.S. Senate candidate who claimed minority status during law school and as a young law professor, continues to insist that she is 1/...
article Majority of independent voters call Elizabeth Warren's Native American controversy a "non-issue"
(Massachusetts) -- Independent Massachusetts voters have a message: lay off Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren’s heritage.
article Michael Tomasky on the Media’s Foolish Elizabeth Warren Witch Hunt
(Massachusetts) -- The press is obsessed with Elizabeth Warren’s Cherokee heritage. Too bad it’s the biggest media-manufactured story since the Lewinsky...

5/28/2012

article Elizabeth Warren stays mum on heritage, affirmative action
(Massachusetts) -- A day after closing doors on a Herald reporter’s questions, Elizabeth Warren and her campaign yesterday declined to answer questions about her...

5/27/2012

article A little bit Cherokee? Elizabeth Warren not alone in ancestry claim
(California) -- Kevin Costner, James Garner, Johnny Depp, James Earl Jones, Chuck Norris, Cameron Diaz. You guessed it (no, you probably did not). This is a partial...
article BLOG: Boston Globe plays catch-up on Fauxcahontas Warren the wrong way
(USA) -- The Boston Globe, a New York Times subsidiary, has been caught flat-footed on the story of Senate candidate/Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren's phony...

5/26/2012

article How Many People Are At Least 1/32 Native American?
(USA) -- Elizabeth Warren, the U.S. Senate candidate who claimed minority status during law school and as a young law professor, continues to insist that she is 1/32...

5/25/2012

article Brown: Harvard may have violated fed guidelines
(Massachusetts) -- U.S. Senator Scott Brown alleges Harvard University may have violated federal guidelines, claiming that the school reported it had a Native American...
article Mayor Menino criticizes focus on Elizabeth Warren’s heritage
(Massachusetts) -- On a day when Senator Scott Brown sought to fan further questions about Elizabeth Warren’s Native American heritage, Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who...
article Senator says Harvard should 'correct' rival's ethnic status
(Massachusetts) -- U.S. Sen. Scott Brown called on Harvard University to “correct the record” Friday after reporting for six years that it had a Native...
article Unscathed Warren still has obstacles to overcome
(Massachusetts) -- The new Suffolk University poll of the Massachusetts Senate race tells us that Elizabeth Warren has survived the unrelenting bombardment of stories on...
article Who's an American Indian? Warren case stirs query
(Massachusetts) -- What, exactly, makes someone American Indian? Even Indians themselves don't agree as they debate the case of Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren,...

5/24/2012

article Cherokee Controversy Not Hurting Warren
(Massachusetts) -- Suffolk University finds that Elizabeth Warren’s support is actually holding steady in Massachusetts, despite the ongoing controversy about her...
article Despite ancestry controversy, Elizabeth Warren tied with Sen. Scott Brown
(Massachusetts) -- The US Senate race in Massachusetts is among the closest in the battle over Senate control after the November elections. In a new poll, Elizabeth...
article Elizabeth Warren draws even in latest poll of Massachusetts Senate race
(Massachusetts) -- Former Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren (D) trails incumbent Scott Brown (R) by only one point in a new Suffolk University poll, the first one since...
article Elizabeth Warren says she knows she is part Native American 'because my mother told me so'
(Massachusetts) -- Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren said Thursday that she knows she has Native American ancestry because her mother told her so.
article Filings raise more questions on Warren’s ethnic claims
(Massachusetts) -- US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has said she was unaware that Harvard Law School had been promoting her purported Native American heritage until...
article Poll: Brown and Warren Tie Up Race in Massachusetts
(Massachusetts) -- Sen. Scott Brown (R., Mass.) and Elizabeth Warren, his presumed Democratic challenger, are running neck and neck in a new poll, despite a prolonged...
article Poll: Elizabeth Warren gaining ground on Scott Brown in Massachusetts Senate race, despite Native American controversy
(Massachusetts) -- Despite continued controversy over Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren’s use of her Native American ancestry, Warren has actually...
article President of Native American Group Defends Warren
(Massachusetts) -- The President of the New England Native American Institute is personally supporting Elizabeth Warren's claim to 1/32nd Native American Cherokee...
article Scott Brown pushes Elizabeth Warren to prove her roots
(Massachusetts) -- The Brown campaign is again calling on rival Elizabeth Warren to once and for all document “family lore” that she’s part Cherokee...
article Warren restates claim to Native American heritage, citing mother
(Massachusetts) -- Democrat Elizabeth Warren isn't backing off her claim to be part Native American, despite being unable to provide any evidence to back up her...
article Warren says US Sen. Brown is Attacking her Family Heritage
(Massachusetts) -- Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren is accusing Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown of launching attacks on her family over her claims of Native...

5/23/2012

article Poll: Brown and Warren in Dead Heat, Indian Flap Not Hurting
(Massachusetts) -- A new Suffolk University poll shows Republican Scott Brown and Democrat Elizabeth Warren in a statistical tie in Massachusetts, with Brown hold a 48-...

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