The Cherokee Nation is not buying it, denouncing Senator Warren’s extraordinarily tenuous claim to native ancestry as “a mockery,” “dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens,” “inappropriate and wrong,” etc. “Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage,” Cherokee Nation secretary of state Chuck Hoskin Jr. wrote.
Identity politics is generally goofy and often trivial, but this is no trivial thing: The Cherokee Nation is a separate sovereign nation, with the rights and dignity that implies. It deserves to be treated with respect, not used as a prop by an ambitious low-rent hustler from Oklahoma.
White people did some pretty rotten things to the Indians over the years. But making them take Elizabeth Warren on top of it? That’s just mean.What gets me is that the very same people who tell me that Chief Wahoo is racist support Warren and claim they will vote for her.
A logo for a team you don't follow in a sport you don't care about in a city and state in which you wouldn't be caught dead, is racist.
The woman who looks like you and reflects your ideology? When she steals native identity, that doesn't even earn a shrug.