Elizabeth Warren Is Not Native American
Massachusetts senator (and 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful) Elizabeth Warren is not Native American. Native American identity is about belonging to a community. It is a specific political, legal and social formation akin to a form of citizenship that is particular to each tribe, nation, confederacy or otherwise sovereign and self-determining Indigenous government—numbering and hundreds of Alaska Native, Hawaiian and state-recognized entities across the country. It is also racial. Not in the biological sense, but in a more ephemeral ...
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