by Frank Holmes, reporter
Elizabeth Warren has doubled down on claims that she really is a Cherokee — in a roomful of real Cherokees!
Warren made a secret trip to one of the nation’s largest tribal events… and tried to buy their support with your tax money.
To critics, it’s evidence that her 2020 hopes are seriously struggling to stay above water.
The 2020 presidential hopeful appeared at the National Indian Women’s “Supporting Each Other” luncheon on Tuesday. But there were no cameras, no recordings.
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She wasn’t even listed on the schedule. Indian officials say her participation came as a “surprise.”
So, what was the Massachusetts senator doing? Promising to hand left-wing political leaders huge wads of taxpayer dollars “behind closed doors.”
Warren crashed the luncheon to introduce Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, an advisor to the Bureau of Indian Affairs… under Barack Obama.
Obama officials had previously promised to give “reparations” to tribal members.
“Congress needs that kind of counsel now more than ever,” Warren said. “We need action!”
Of course, Obama offered these “reparations” to minority groups even though he never made any phony claim about tribal membership.
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But Warren’s political future depends on how tribal leaders react to her posing as a member of the Cherokee Nation for twenty years.
Claiming to be an American Indian catapulted Warren into a job in the lily-white Ivy League and ultimately launched her into political stardom.
If she survives the Native American controversies that threaten her candidacy, she knows she’ll owe them — big.
If elected, Warren promised to be an ally for their agenda… but she’ll do it “behind closed doors,” said Brenda Toineeta Pipestem, Supreme Court justice in one of the member tribes.
Some leaders said American Indians should fall in line behind Warren, because she’ll open up massive streams of funding from Washington, D.C.
“It’s important that we show our support for her. We’re not in the room yet,” Pipestem said.
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“Indian Country needs strong allies like Elizabeth Warren,” added Congresswoman Deb Haaland, D-N.M.
Before she left, Sen. Warren also took a picture with National Indian Gaming Association Chairman, Ernie Stevens Jr.—so look for a President Warren to give a green light to massive expansion of casinos on Indian reservations
Most casino jobs don’t go to Native Americans, of course… and casinos haven’t improved the economy on impoverished reservations. But they do enrich their rich owners — the exact demographic Warren surrounds herself with.
And those owners might just make campaign contributions to struggling presidential candidates.
So Warren is basically telling the leaders, “You scratch my back, and I’ll scratch yours!”
But considering her issues, tribal leaders are being cagey, hedging their bets in case another Democrat is more likely to win.
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Warren’s participation was a downgrade from last year, when she actually addressed the National Congress of American Indians—the group that hosted the lunch. The website Indianz.com—which bills itself as a “Native American news” source—tweeted out a picture of Warren speaking at the event and posted a full recording of the 20-minute talk online.
Part of the problem is, she lied to the American Indians last year.
“I never used my family tree to get a break or get ahead,” Warren told last year’s conference, held on Valentine’s Day 2018. “I never used it to advance my career.”
What a difference a year makes.
Warren’s appearance at Tuesday’s luncheon comes just days after a fresh controversy blew up in her face.
Documents uncovered by the media prove that Warren signed her application for the Texas state bar by listing her ethnicity as “American Indian.”
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Warren wrote it in her own handwriting and signed the form in blue ink.
Even last year, Warren rubbed a lot of American Indians the wrong way.
A former justice on the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court called Warren’s speech “tone deaf.”
A young Cherokee activist called Warren “pretty pathetic,” since the Democrat “undermined the native genealogists who debunked her family blood myths.”
After last year’s event, Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes said, “There is absolutely no evidence to suggest she actually had a Cherokee or American Indian ancestor.”
And others said that Warren only showed up when she needed their votes.
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“She did not show up once to support Native students,” said Gavin Clarkson, who was president of a group of Native American students at Harvard and.
“I don’t think she’s a supporter of Indian Country,” said Clarkson, an enrolled member of the Choctaw tribe and worked in the Trump administration.
Since then, she’s taken a DNA test that shows she’s perhaps 1/2024th American Indian…or less. Prominent Democratic Party leaders said that misstep alone cost her a chance to win the presidential nomination in 2020.
She eventually went on her hands and knees to the main chief of the Cherokee Nation, Bill John Baker, and begged him for forgiveness.
Now she’s promising to share the wealth with American Indians if she’s elected.
Elizabeth Warren may not be Cherokee, Choctaw, or Seminole—but she is absolutely desperate to call the shots from the Oval Office…and she’s willing to use your money to get there.
Frank Holmes is a reporter for The Horn News. He is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”