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Hillary's Biggest 2016 Competitor: A Native American Millionaire Who Also Pretends Not to Be Wealthy
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Hillary’s Biggest 2016 Competitor: A Native American Millionaire Who Also Pretends Not to Be Wealthy

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A huge question in Democratic politics - other than “When is Hillary going to announce?” - concerns whether or not Senator Elizabeth Warren (D – Cherokee Nation) will run for president.

If Hillary does not run, it is almost certain that Warren will. Well-known for her populist and Occupy-esque perspectives on healthcare, taxes, income redistribution and everything in-between, she is one of the rising stars of the Democratic party.

Anticipating that it could happen, we’re getting out in front and establish her as a storyteller, to put it nicely, about her wealth.

This is an excerpt from an interview she did with Lawrence O’Donnell two and half years ago:



The context was members of Congress and their ability to trade stock on the insider-type info they receive. Notice the little comment she slid in there:

…I realize there’s some wealthy individuals, I’m not one of them…

But here’s the thing: According to her mandated financial disclosure forms, she’s worth north of $14 million, earned over $700,000 a year before she took her Senate job, and lives in a house worth $5 million.

Granted, she’s not John Kerry, Herb Kohl, or Mark Warner wealthy — the three wealthiest Senators who just also happen to be Democrats — but to deny that she’s wealthy is just silly.

Our guess: She’ll cast herself as a “woman of the people,” or some such thing. But it’s just not true. Consider yourself forewarned.


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How Many People Are At Least 1/32 Native American?

Calculating tribal heritage.

By Brian Palmer



Does Elizabeth Warren have Cherokee blood? How many other Americans do?
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Elizabeth Warren, the U.S. Senate candidate who claimed minority status during law school and as a young law professor, continues to insist that she is 1/32 Native American. Warren’s only proof is her mother’s word. Many American families have stories about Native American ancestors. How many really do?
At least a few percent of the population. While just 1.7 percent of Americans self-identified as either completely or partially Native American on the 2010 census, the Cornell University Genetic Ancestry Project used genetic tests to identify Native American heritage in between 4 percent and 5 percent of the 200 undergraduates studied. That sample isn’t necessarily representative of the general population, because the students who volunteered themselves were likely curious about their backgrounds, but other projects of approximately the same size have produced similar findings. There doesn’t seem to be much correlation between an individual’s expectation and their actual ancestry, however. Many of the Cornell students who were found to have Native American blood expected to be exclusively European, and geneticists say the overwhelming majority of white Americans who expect to find Native American ancestry in their DNA are disappointed.
But it’s impossible to come up with a meaningful rate of Native American heritage using DNA tests, at least for the moment. Using genetic material from the mitochondria (which is passed from mother to child) and from the Y-chromosome (passed from father to son), it's possible to trace ancestral origins along the male and female lines that run down each side of a person's family tree—his mother's mother's mother, his father's father's father, and so on. But progenitors anywhere in the middle, which constitute the overwhelming majority of a person's ancestry, are harder to trace, especially as the tree broadens. Geneticists are constantly improving their odds by identifying more telltale sequences that might survive the reshuffling across multiple generations, but the science is still young.
The weakness of the genetic tests poses an even bigger problem when you're looking for Native American ancestors. Native Americans have been reluctant to participate in genetic testing, which means scientists don’t have many reliable markers for that population. In addition, the genetic profiles that have been conducted show that many card-carrying members of certain tribes, such as the Cherokee, have more European ancestors than Native American ancestors. That means even the small number of Native American genetic markers we know of aren’t present in large segments of the population, making it difficult to find evidence of Native American DNA in people like Elizabeth Warren. That's part of the reason that most Native American tribes have resisted using ancestral genetic analyses to determine membership. Tribal membership has more to do with the culture and location of one’s ancestors than precisely how many of their relatives can be traced back to the Bering land bridge.
Just fewer than 2 million people are enrolled in Native American tribes, representing about 0.7 percent of the population. That’s not a reliable estimate of how many people have Native American ancestry, however. Each tribe has its own rules about the “blood quantum” required for membership, and some qualified people have not enrolled in a tribe.

Got a question about today’s news? Ask the Explainer.

Explainer thanks Charles Aquadro of Cornell University, Kimberly Tallbear of UC-Berkeley, and Spencer Wells of the Genographic Project of the National Geographic Society.

Brian Palmer is Slate's chief explainer. He also writes How and Why and Ecologic for the Washington Post. Email him at explainerbrian@gmail.com.Follow him on Twitter.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...heritage_.html

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