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Showing Original Post only (View all)I bet I know why Warren claimed Native American heritage. [View all]
Because she was proud of it -- like most people I know, including my own children, who have even a small amount of Native American "blood." She wasn't trying to get some special privilege -- just acknowledging the complexity of her background, as she understood it.
And when I mention my own background, I don't just say Irish-American, because that's not precisely true. We have a couple Brits in the family tree, and it doesn't seem right to leave them out.
When it comes down to it, most people who have been in the U.S. for generations have multiple cultures and even races in their family trees. And Warren, like millions of others, is proud of that.
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Most people don't have it documented, but there was a lot of interracial coupling in the west
pnwmom
Jun 2012
#17
no, there wasn't, unless you're going back to the age of exploration. In 1800 only 3% of the
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#24
I could care less about individual cases. I'm just saying that a lot of the people claiming NA
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#31
Why is this so important to you? Is it a bad thing that white people are no longer ashamed to think
pnwmom
Jun 2012
#35
anyone who had ancestors in the us before 1900 is more likely to have had ancestors that
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#40
Where in then history of the world have there been cultures who didn't clash, kill, and intermarry?
pnwmom
Jun 2012
#43
beside the point, but you know that already. i repeat, white people's ancestors are more likely
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#45
"many" = how many and how many generations back, and how many documented? because
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#50
You have more confidence in the public records of the 1800's than I do. And in the willingness
pnwmom
Jun 2012
#51
The history of the US demonstrates that it was. For example, ~700-1000 were killed/sold to the
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#56
Why is it minimizing it to compare it to the genocide that's gone down through the centuries?
pnwmom
Jun 2012
#47
And in each generation, NA are a decreasing fraction of the total population = decreasing
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#55
canada also had censuses & other forms of documentation. i'm not saying it's always possible
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#13
I went to a geneological society in NH that specializes in French-Canadian family history
rox63
Jun 2012
#15
because there are indian censuses, regular censuses, appendixes to censuses that document
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#25
the inconsistencies in the records don't explain why every second white person has an NA
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#28
Where do you get your statistic that "every second white person has an NA ancestor"
pnwmom
Jun 2012
#30
Many courthouses and government records were destroyed during the Civil War.
Major Hogwash
Jun 2012
#33
Another issue is that the initial Cherokee registry arbitrarily included some Cherokees
pnwmom
Jun 2012
#37
Is that because of the legal issues inherent when claiming to be a Cherokee.
Major Hogwash
Jun 2012
#42
Exactly. Her family had always told her she had some Native American ancestry, and she felt proud.
Mister Ed
Jun 2012
#9
not unless everyone were living a traditional life. but you could say the same thing about any
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#29
There were more black people in Oklahoma in 1907 than NA. Why does no one go searching
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#41