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- - By Nancy Lecompte
- What Elizabeth Warren has done is an act of colonization. She has usurped Indigenous identity, just as her ancestors stole the land and resources. It's a hostile act of genocide and it is not okay.
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- - By Nancy Lecompte
- No one has said Elizabeth Warren can’t share the family stories she has heard, but some people do take issue with her abusing the system and claiming it in order to benefit her career or to help her employers meet diversity goals.
- the United States Supreme Court confirmed that Native-American status was not a purely racial matter, but was derived from membership in a tribe recognized by the federal government.”
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- The definition for American Indian:
American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. - She, along with her supporters, want to redefine who is entitled to claim the status of Native American, even if a person has no proof of American Indian ancestry. This is an anti-sovereignty stance and this way of thinking is a danger to our sovereignty.
- While she claims being Native American played such an important part in the lives of her and her family, they seem to have never had any association with real Indians.
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