Families tell their kids all kinds of things. Rublio was told Castro made his parents leave Cuba. False. Romney said his father marched with Martin Luther King Jr. False. Bush said he had no criminal record when he ran for president. False. I'm sure we could go on.
It is funny how no one else in her family remembers those stores, don't you think?
Caught me off guard with "stores". How come you guys never research anything? You're like a bunch of parrots. Not the smart ones.
Ina Mapes remembers her mother as a highly discreet woman who rarely expressed her personal feelings except when it came to one particularly incendiary topic: Did MapesÂ’s father, a raven-haired lawyer, have Native American roots, or did he not? MapesÂ’s grandmother maintained that he had one-quarter tribal blood. But her mother wanted to hear nothing of it.
Mapes, a mother of four who volunteers in a clothing bank, is a second cousin to US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren.
“I think you are what you are,” said Mapes. “And part of us is Indian.”
Officials from both schools have said that her assertion of ancestry was not a factor in her hiring.
During the late 1800s and early 1900s, many Native Americans did not join tribal rolls for a host of complex reasons, including residency requirements, fear of discrimination, and opposition to land allotment policies.
David Herring of Norman, Okla., one of Warren’s three brothers, said in an interview that even when he was a child his relatives were reluctant to talk about the family’s Native American heritage because “it was not popular in my family.” Only when he begged his grandparents, said Herring, did they finally explain to him: “Your grandfather is part Delaware, a little bitty bit, way back, and your grandmother is part Cherokee. It was not the most popular thing to do in Oklahoma. [Indians] were degraded, looked down on.”
Warren’s brothers, Don, John, and David Herring, also issued a joint statement supporting their sister. “The people attacking Betsy and our family don’t know much about either. We grew up listening to our mother and grandmother and other relatives talk about our family’s Cherokee and Delaware heritage. They’ve passed away now, but they’d be angry if they were around today listening to all this.”
Elizabeth Warren's family has mixed memories about heritage - Boston.com
