Elizabeth Warren Fauxahontas

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I also have the family heritage of Native American. And the stories that go with it.
I have a great-uncle who spent much money and time to prove our heritage in an effort to be put on the tribal roll (which makes you an "official" Native American.
However, the Cherokees can decide to add you or not, no matter your proof.
And they declined to add him, in spite of the evidence.
I also have Choctaw blood from the other side of the family, but no one has ever attempted to "prove" it. Incidentally, we did not know this until my Grandmother passed away and we found documents about her father (who passed away when she was an infant). She never said anything about it, as it was looked down on when she was a child.
The difference between myself and Warren is that I have never claimed to be Native American, in any official documents, because you cannot do that legally.
The closest I come to claiming it was on the Census Documents you can check multi-racial, which I do.
If we would eliminate these bogus identity politic/affirmative action, it would do away with all of this.