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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) says that she is a not a member of an American Indian tribe as she tried to explain why she listed her race as "American Indian" on a State Bar of Texas registration card in 1986.…

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Harvard University’s decision to hire Elizabeth Warren as a law professor in the 1990s was not based on any assertion that she has Native American heritage, according to a report by the Boston Globe. Elizabeth Warren seeks to use Trump Pocahontas 'racial slur' as political tool Read more Warren is now a US senator from Massachusetts and a possible liberal contender for the Democratic presidential nomination. Donald Trump has repeatedly referred to Warren as “Pocahontas”, mocking her claims of heritage. The Globe reported that interviews and documents show the issue was not considered by Harvard Law faculty or those who admitted Warren to law school at Rutgers or to jobs at the University of Houston, the University of Texas and the University of Pennsylvania. “It was just not an issue. I can’t remember anybody ever mentioning her in this context.” The Globe reported that it examined hundreds of documents, many never before available, and talked to 31 law school professors from that period at Harvard. One said he was unsure if the issue came up, but if it did, it had no bearing on his vote. On Sunday, Warren posted to her website documents related to her job and school applications and again asserted that her heritage played no role in her career advancement. “My family is my family,” she told the Globe. She has repeatedly said she is not running for president in 2020, but continues to position herself as a national leader in the Democratic party.

Trump makes waves at his Montana rally while challenging Senator Elizabeth Warren's claims of a Native American heritage. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news.…

Elizabeth Warren has responded to Donald Trump’s latest “Pocahontas” jibe by highlighting the problem of sexual violence against Native American women, a tactic she said she would pursue each time the president “threw out” such a “racial slur”. Donald Trump advocates death penalty for drug dealers in rambling speech Read more At a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday night, Trump discussed the Massachusetts senator as a potential rival for the White House in 2020. “Can you imagine? Can you imagine covering Bernie [Sanders] or Pocahontas? How about that?” Trump has long referred to Warren as “Pocahontas”, even in front of decorated Navajo veterans in the Oval Office, in reference to controversy over her claim of Native American ancestry. Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, Warren said her “family story” was “deeply a part of me”. Play Video 0:52 On NBC and CNN, Warren outlined her planned response to attacks on the matter from Trump, telling the latter: “I went to speak to Native American leaders and I made a promise to them: that every time President Trump wants to try to throw out some kind of racial slur, he wants to try to attack me, I’m going to try to use it as a chance to lift up their stories. A 2016 US justice department survey said 56% of Native American women reported experiencing sexual violence. “Native American women are subjected to sexual violence at rates much higher than any other group in our country,” Warren said. “We need to put some focus on this and we need to make some changes on this.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Wednesday made a surprise appearance at the National Congress of American Indians, delivering a speech about issues facing Native Americans and defending herself from the "Pocahontas" slurred repeatedly lobbed at her by President Trump. The senator, who claims partial Native American heritage, explained her family’s background in the speech, saying that her mother’s family was part Native American, and that she eloped with Warren’s father because his family did not approve of their relationship. “I get why some people think there’s hay to be made here,” Warren said, according to a transcript of the speech published by The Boston Globe. “You won’t find my family members on any rolls, and I’m not enrolled in a tribe.” She said that she respects the distinction between heritage and tribal membership, and said she has “never used my family tree to get a break or get ahead. In her remarks Wednesday, Warren told the basics of the Pocahontas story, noting specifically her suffering at the hands of early English settlers. “Her story has been taken away by powerful people who twisted it to serve their own purposes,” Warren said of the real Pocahontas. “The fable is used to bleach away the stain of genocide. “Every time someone brings up my family’s story, I’m going to use it to lift up the story of your families and your communities … This must stop. And I promise I will fight to help write a different story.”