Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Elizabeth Warren faces reporters during a campaign stop at a diner in Shrewsbury, Mass., Sunday, April 29. It turns out that Warren’s great-great-great grandfather was a member of a militia unit which participated in the round-up of the Cherokees in the prelude to the Trail of Tears. Photo Credit:AP/Steven Senne
*******Fake ahontas'
ancestor rounded up Cherokees
`Warren: 'Papa had high cheekbones like all the Indians do'
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Cornell Law School professor William A. Jacobson, citing a genealogist, claimed Tuesday that Massachusetts Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren‘s ancestry includes a great-great-great grandfather who helped round up Cherokees in the days leading to the Trail of Tears.
Warren has struggled to prove her American Indian ancestry since it was revealed more than a week ago that she referred to herself as a Native American minority in the 1980s and ’90s.
“In what may be the ultimate and cruelest irony … it turns out that Warren’s great-great-great grandfather was a member of a militia unit which participated in the round-up of the Cherokees in the prelude to the Trail of Tears,” Jacobson wrote on his blog.
The Trail of Tears is the name given to the forced relocation of Native Americans after the Indian Removal Act of 1830. It led to the deaths of thousands of Indians.
Jacobson explained that this information was learned after Warren’s campaign claimed last week that her great-great-great grandmother, O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford, was herself a Cherokee Indian.
Citing writer and genealogist Michael Patrick Leahy, he reported that a review of that ancestor’s heritage revealed that her husband, Jonathan Crawford, apparently participated in the removal of the Cherokees from Georgia. (RELATED: More on Elizabeth Warren)
Leahy also doubts that O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford is Native American, reporting that she was listed in the Census of 1860 as “white.”
Does this surprise anybody? I mean take a look at the other democrats that claim to be something they're not ~~ IE: Obama
He claims to be a US citizen!
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