I understand what she meant by family lore, as I had the same situation. Growing up I heard the family tales about a Cherokee princess in our family tree. I always thought I was part Indian until my sister and I started researching and found out our g-g-grandfather had two wives at the same time. A white woman and the Indian one. We are descendants of the white wife. The good news is that we have a lot of Cherokee relatives in Oklahoma now! But I had enough common sense NOT to use that as a minority preference until I checked it out. Warren isn't that smart.

Democrats: She's a liar, but she's their liar. They just don't care.

That's true, #2. About a month ago I had a conversation with a self-proclaimed socialist and Warren supporter who told me that yes, she was unhappy that warren had lied about her ethnicity and exploited that lie for gain, but that she herself was still going to vote for Warren and send Warren because "it's vital to get that right-wing extremist Scott Brown out of the senate." Direct quote.

Yes, I'm sure her advancement in academia had nothing to do with it.

Left out a word in post #3. I meant "send Warren money." Sadly, I think warren is going to win. I dearly hope I'm wrong. If she wins, it will be dreadful for the country. The ridiculous "war on women" thing seems to be working for her.

My ex-wife's family also descended from a "Cherokee Princess". That turned out to be a family falsehood. And, we never tried to get special treatment for our children because of it.

Hey, it's Massachusetts. There, a politician lying is a PLUS.

My husband's great-great-grandmother is listed on the Dawes rolls. Our 4 children are documented, authentic fractional Cherokees. We've never tried to use that to get an "edge" in anything for them. They've succeeded on their own. If the people of MA elect Elizabeth Warren, in spite of everything that's been revealed about her, they're stupid enough to do anything!

Her false claims about being Cherokee are just one aspect of Elizabeth Warren's dishonesty. She lies as much as her master, Obama. That she gets away with it at all is a mystery because the woman does not have the cover of "likeability" that has protected Obama. I doubt that anyone in MA (Democrat, Republican or 'unenrolled') truly likes this obnoxious woman; only die-hard liberals and a few misguided "low-information" voters (who are taken in by her lies) support her. Will this be enough for her to win? I pray to God not.

Elisabeth Warren has issues that transcend any reference to an ancestor. The real issue is what is she, herself.

But most of the discourse on Cherokees is flawed. The Dawes Rolls (the "Final Rolls") (circa 1899-1906) has inexplicably become the Holy Grail of Cherrikee-ness -- a litmus test.

One might suppose that the definition of "Cherokee” should be discussed at some point.
The genealogical facts are that huge numbers of “non-Cherokee” (European, mainstream, or whatever other term is used to describe our melting-pot ancestry and culture) Americans are descended from Cherokees. The Dawes Rolls catalogued about 100,000 persons who had lived on Cherokee lands. Thus, the Dawes Rolls were geographical -- and not genetic – and as a result “skipped” a large group of de facto Cherokee. Indeed, by this time thousands of Cherokee had already left their traditional lands, and many were living as “white people”.

So, is Elizabeth Warren really a Cherokee by some rational definition? Maybe? But who cares? She is a fascist redistributionist by any definition.

The children of my liberal brother are of 1/8th Mexican discent. My brother insists on characterizing his children as "Mexicans". It's a liberal thing.