Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren greeted Bruce Trotto, owner of Dinky’s Blue Belle Diner, during a Sunday campaign stop in Shrewsbury. At left is US Representative James McGovern.
(STEVEN SENNE/ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Document ties Warren kin to Cherokees
Genealogist cites marriage license dating from 1894
Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren greeted Bruce Trotto, owner of Dinky’s Blue Belle Diner, during a Sunday campaign stop in Shrewsbury. At left is US Representative James McGovern.
(STEVEN SENNE/ASSOCIATED PRESS)
A record unearthed Monday shows that Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has a great-great-great grandmother listed in an 1894 document as a Cherokee, said a genealogist at the New England Historic and Genealogy Society. The latest shred of evidence could validate her claim that she has Native American ancestry, making her 1/32 American Indian, but may not put an end to the questions swirling around the subject.
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