For a long time, Elizabeth Warren loved to tell people that she was part Cherokee. The only evidence she had to support this claim was an old family story and a pair of majestic cheekbones, but that didn't matter. Warren says that she "never used it for anything," but her minority status has certainly helped her virtue signal, may have been employed to help her career back in the 90's, and was (for a time) politically beneficial. So, she stuck with it.