And now a good word about Elizabeth Warren
By Professor Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
Native Sun News Today Columnist
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It’s more than a hobby, I would suspect, but I am not sure what DNA tells us.
I have friends who are curious about what Internet sources say DNA is supposed to tell us about where we came from as well as what traits are embedded in our genetic makeup. There are now scholars across the country who are studying about this phenomenon.
Like our current President Donald Trump and his party of dis-agreeable folks there seems to be an interest in this, since he recently criticized Elizabeth Warren, a senator from Oklahoma, saying that she doesn’t know who she is, and should not claim to be a native. Trump’s roots are in Europe, (a purist, his thinking goes), and that means that hers must be, too, yet talk to any Oklahoman about it and the plot (to say nothing about blood) thickens.
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Cook-Lynn. Courtesy photo
Elizabeth Warren is a brilliant lawyer, and an outstanding senator. Whether she is a Cherokee is debatable. But, she was born and raised in Oklahoma and the truth is, today half the population in that state claims what she claims. That doesn’t mean that without Sovereign Citizenship in a federally recognized tribal nation you can claim whatever you want to claim!!
She was wrong to do so, and she has apologized. None-the-less, Warren took on the bankers and shamed them for their greed which is more than President Trump’s group has done. She is a defender of all the things that her party, the Democrats, have a long history of defending, mostly defense against the power of the “good old boys”.
But, history follows itself. Many of us remember the college days when if you could make the claim to be “a native”, you could be eligible for financial assistance and that is, apparently, what Warren did. It was a sleazy thing that many white students did and if that didn’t work, you could file a law suit against the school for denying your entrance in order to give preference to “minority” students.
And many white students did. They got jobs that way, too. Too many of them are now running our Indian based school systems and governmental entities.
Contact Elizabeth Cook-Lynn at ecooklynn@gmail.com
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