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==Cultural appropriation==
==Cultural appropriation==
Warren claimed her to parents eloped because her father's family did not want him to marry a woman who was part Native American.
Warren was a lateral hire onto the faculty of the Harvard Law School in 1995 after having listed herself as a minority of American Indian (specifically, Cherokee) descent, despite her fair-skinned appearance and a lack of persuasive documentary evidence for her claim to minority status.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-controversy-over-elizabeth-warrens-claimed-native-american-heritage/2012/09/27/d0b7f568-08a5-11e2-a10c-fa5a255a9258_blog.html?utm_term=.367f03c92d5d Detailed summary of Warren's claimed minority status]</ref> The fair-skinned Warren obtained [[affirmative action]] preferences by falsely claiming that she was of "[[American Indian]]" descent, when in fact her heritage does not support her claim under widely accepted standards.<ref>[http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100165458/elizabeth-warrens-native-american-claims-if-she-was-a-republican-the-media-would-call-her-a-racist/ "Elizabeth Warren's 'Native American' claims: if she was a Republican, the media would call her a racist."]</ref> When President [[Donald Trump]] ridiculed Warren's false claims of American Indian ancestry and challenged her to prove it by taking a DNA test, she responded by falsely branding Trump as a "racist". She released the results of a DNA test obtained at Stanford University in October 2018 initially claiming her as having between 1/64th and 1/512th Indigenous ancestry, but was later revealed to be as little as 1/1024th ancestry, not even involving American Indian DNA samples, but instead samples from Mexico, Peru and Colombia.<ref name="Warren meltdown">[https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/15/elizabeth-warren-melts-down-in-wake-of-dna-disaster/ Elizabeth Warren Melts Down in Wake of DNA Disaster] at Breitbart News Network</ref>
Warren was a lateral hire onto the faculty of the Harvard Law School in 1995 after having listed herself as a minority of American Indian (specifically, Cherokee) descent, despite her fair-skinned appearance and a lack of persuasive documentary evidence for her claim to minority status.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-controversy-over-elizabeth-warrens-claimed-native-american-heritage/2012/09/27/d0b7f568-08a5-11e2-a10c-fa5a255a9258_blog.html?utm_term=.367f03c92d5d Detailed summary of Warren's claimed minority status]</ref> The fair-skinned Warren obtained [[affirmative action]] preferences by falsely claiming that she was of "[[American Indian]]" descent, when in fact her heritage does not support her claim under widely accepted standards.<ref>[http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100165458/elizabeth-warrens-native-american-claims-if-she-was-a-republican-the-media-would-call-her-a-racist/ "Elizabeth Warren's 'Native American' claims: if she was a Republican, the media would call her a racist."]</ref> When President [[Donald Trump]] ridiculed Warren's false claims of American Indian ancestry and challenged her to prove it by taking a DNA test, she responded by falsely branding Trump as a "racist". She released the results of a DNA test obtained at Stanford University in October 2018 initially claiming her as having between 1/64th and 1/512th Indigenous ancestry, but was later revealed to be as little as 1/1024th ancestry, not even involving American Indian DNA samples, but instead samples from Mexico, Peru and Colombia.<ref name="Warren meltdown">[https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/15/elizabeth-warren-melts-down-in-wake-of-dna-disaster/ Elizabeth Warren Melts Down in Wake of DNA Disaster] at Breitbart News Network</ref>