By Mitch Wolfe ——Bio and Archives--October 16, 2018
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“A DNA test is useless to determine tribal citizenship. Current DNA tests do not even distinguish whether a person's ancestors were indigenous to North or South America. Sovereign tribal nations set their own legal requirements for citizenship, and while DNA tests can be used to determine lineage, such as paternity to an individual, it is not evidence for tribal affiliation. Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong. It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, whose ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is prove. Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage." - Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin, Jr.
“ I won't sit quietly for @realDonaldTrump's racism, so I took a test. But DNA & family history has nothing to do with tribal affiliation or citizenship, which is determined only – only – by Tribal Nations. I respect the distinction, & don't list myself as Native in the Senate.”Are you kidding me? Warren wrongly misrepresents herself on records filed with the federal government while a law professor at University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law Schools that she is a Native American and a woman of color and she is accusing Trump who has called out her obvious misrepresentations- as racism? Does this clueless woman have no judgment? Does she have no shame? Is Warren so delusional in her thinking, that because now she does not now self-identify in the Senate as a Native American Indian, she is home scot-free? That everything is kosher? All is forgiven? Warren has succeeded in being ridiculed on the right and is now being vilified on the left for cultural appropriation for professional and political gains. Warren is toast. She and her clueless supporters just can’t read the obvious political smoke signals yet.
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Mitch Wolfe, a graduate of Harvard University, is the author of “Trump: How He Captured The Trump White House”, which he wrote and had published prior to the election. (available on Amazon.com)