Now in 2018, Warren took a DNA test, presumably, to get trump off her back. She released a video about her test. Doing that made matters worse. Because she's more visible now than she was then, the conversations were--and are--much louder. I'm curating some links to articles and posts by Indigenous people that I think will be helpful to teachers and librarians who read AICL. I'll be back to insert more links. Please let me know of ones I should add.
Note on Sun, Oct 21: Some argue that my list is biased because it does not include links to posts from Indigenous people who think Warren's actions are fine. The point of my list is to provide readers with Indigenous points of view that find her decisions, and mainstream media's pro-Warren/anti-trump binary unhelpful to the well being of Indigenous Nations.
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Monday, October 15, 2018
Chuck Hoskin Jr., Cherokee Nation Secretary of State: Cherokee Nation responds to Senator Warren's DNA test
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Kim TallBear interview at Jezebel's The Slot: 'Our Vote Matters Very Little': Kim TallBear on Elizabeth Warren's Attempt to Claim Native American Heritage.
Dr. TallBear has referenced Polly's Granddaughter as a site with in-depth research on Warren's claims.
Julian Brave NoiseCat at HuffPost: Elizabeth Warren Is Not Native American
Nick Martin at Splinter: Elizabeth Warren's Deception
Simon Moya-Smith at CNN: I am a Native American. I have some questions or Elizabeth Warren.
Debra Utacia Krol at Vice: Actual Native Americans Have More to Worry About than Warren's DNA
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Brandon Scott at Vox: Cherokee Nation citizens like me are used to people claiming our heritage. It's exhausting.
Kelly Hayes and Jacqueline Keeler at NBC News Think: Elizabeth Warren connected DNA and Native American heritage. Here's why that is destructive.
Julie Reed at NY Daily News: Elizabeth Warren, what were you thinking? Her DNA stunt does a disservice to Native Americans
Krystal Tsosie at The Atlantic: Elizabeth Warren's DNA Is Not Her Identity
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Tara Houska, Mark Trahant, and Gyasi Ross on Democracy Now: Native Americans React to Elizabeth Warren's DNA Test: Stop Making Native People "Political Fodder"
Rebecca Nagle at USA Today: Elizabeth Warren's 'part' Cherokee is a joke, and a racist insult to Natives like me
See Nagle's op ed at Think Progress on Nov 30, 2017: I am a Cherokee woman. Elizabeth Warren is not.Crystal Echo Hawk at Indian Country Today: Changing Elizabeth Warren's story to one about Native America
Friday, October 19, 2018
Nick Estes at The Intercept: Native American Sovereignty Is Under Attack. Here's How Elizabeth Warren's DNA Test Hurt Our Struggle.
Mariah Gladstone at Broadly: Native American Is Not My Race--It's Who I Am
Kim TallBear at On The Media: By Blood, and Beyond Blood
Rebecca Nagle interviewed at The Atlantic's Radio Atlantic: The Politics of Ancestry
Sunday, October 21, 2018
Zerlina Maxwell's remarks, on MSNBC, about the Cherokee Freedmen are incorrect. See Rebeccca Nagel's response at her Facebook page. Here's a screen cap of the first two paragraphs, followed by a couple of the links she included on that post.
Monday, October 22, 2018
- Native America Calling, September 6, 2017: Court Victory for Cherokee Freedmen
- The Descendants of Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes
Krystal Tsosie and Matthew Anderson at The Conversation: Two Native American Geneticists Interpret Elizabeth Warren's DNA Test.
January 17, 2019
Kim TallBear at High Country News: Elizabeth Warren’s claim to Cherokee ancestry is a form of violence.
