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Café 1930 (Astor Piazzolla) - Alexandra Whittingham and Esther Abrami

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Jay C8/23/2019 10:29:18 am PDT

re: #250 Belafon

Did she claim she was specifically Cherokee? I haven’t kept up with the details.

IIRC, Sen. Warren (some time back) repeated a family story she had been told growing up in Oklahoma, that there was a Cherokee ancestor somewhere back in the family history (not exactly unheard-of in OK): DNA testing has since either proved that it was
1) 1/2048th (i.e. a 9-x g-grandparent) or
2) nonexistent.

In any event, I think the RW canard that Warren “claimed Native ancestry to get benefits” at Harvard (?) - or got them - is BS in any case….