DUMB&mental Wrote:
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> Whether one is American Indian or not is, legally
> speaking, very clear.
>
> In order to receive the benefits of the status,
> you have to be accepted as a member by an Indian
> tribe. Simple as that.
>
> If you belong to an Indian tribe, you're an
> Indian. If you don't, you're not
>
> And up to now, no Indian tribe seems ever to have
> heard of Elizabeth Warren.
>
> If Elizabeth Warren is an enrolled member of one
> of the Cherokee Nations then she is legally
> entitled to claim minority status.
>
> If she is not on the membership roll of the
> Cherokee Nation, she should not have claimed to be
> Cherokee for purposes of her academic legal
> career.
>
> We're not talking about a romantic schoolgirl or
> an elderly genealogy enthusiast here, we're
> talking about a Harvard law professor.
>
> It's not a really complicated legal question for a
> Harvard law professor to get right.
>
>
http://isteve.blogspot.com/2012/05/elizabeth-warre
> n.html
My grandmother was full blooded Cherokee and never belonged to a tribe.
My 2nd cousins who live in Tennessee and Ohio are also full blooded and
have never belonged to a tribe. Does that mean they aren't Cherokee?