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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I find most interesting about this is that she was working at UT Austin. 727 East 26th is the law school, the street name has been changed since then but the law school is still there.

Anyway, I don't think there were guidelines at that time about how much native american heritage you had to have documented to claim it for the bar association.  She is part native american (and her DNA has shown that).

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Elizabeth Warren Apologizes to Cherokee Nation for DNA Test

Senator Elizabeth Warren has tried to put a nagging controversy behind her by apologizing privately to a leader of the Cherokee Nation for her decision to take a DNA test to prove her Native American ancestry last year, a move that had angered some tribal leaders and ignited a significant political backlash.

But mixed reactions among prominent Native American critics Friday suggested that Ms. Warren might still have further to go.

Some Native American leaders gave her credit for the apology and political figures, for the most part, played down the issue.

But others remain unsatisfied.

“This still isn’t transparent,” said Twila Barnes, a Cherokee genealogist who has been critical of Ms. Warren’s claims of native ancestry since it became national news in 2012. “She needs to go public and say she fully takes responsibility and that the DNA test was ridiculous. There is still something about this that feels off.”

In the column, Mr. Hoskin said Ms. Warren was not a Cherokee citizen, even though her genetic test results showed strong evidence that Ms. Warren has a Native American pedigree “6-10 generations ago.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/02/01/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-cherokee-dna.amp.html[/quote]

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