Trump a liar again: "Pocahontas" really is Native American

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They don't permit the DNA to qualify for membership in a tribe because it is not specific to any one tribe. From your DNA, they may know that you are a Native American to some degree, but they cannot determine from it with any specificity at all whether or not your Native American ancestors were members of any one tribe.

Kopopelli posted that, not me.

I think you pretty much made the case for Warren.

You would think the first test would a DNA test to see if you have any significant Indian DNA.

However, this could potentially ruin many already accepted "Indians", because, just because your ancestor was partly Indian, doesn't mean you inherited those genes.

This guy has his docs. His family was already on the Indian reservation.

Why aren't you demanding Warren's resignation for impersonating a minority?

-She has no docs.
-She made no effort.
-She appears to use her "minority status" for her benefit ("minority professor"/"person of color")
-She tells funny stories, like, how her mom and dad's families supposedly wanted to break up her parent's marriage, because her mom is part Cherokee (though fact-checkers found this story to be implausible and common sense makes it laughable)
-She upsets these groups by trying to use DNA as the means to prove her ancestry, when they don't rely on biological traits, rather, just simply ancestry
-She has turned the whole "identity politics" upside down with the notion that "minority" = "any minuscule trace of minority DNA"
-She seems to exemplify "white privilege" of using 1/1024 trace of minority DNA to call herself a "minority".

Where's the outrage?

What? All a DNA test can do is indicate roughly what percentage of Native American you might be. It does nothing to indicate which Native American tribe your ancestors were members of. The only thing they could tell the tribe is whether or not there is any possibility that you might be a member of some Native American tribe.

How many people grow up with tv cameras recording everything?

I save my outrage for things that actually matter, such as racial and economic based voter disenfranchisement, threats to cut the social safety net after the rich were given unnecessary tax cuts, and the current administration's collusion with various strong men on the world scene, etc.

Yeah not to be dismissive about this, but it's only still an issue because the cheesepuff in chief keeps on bringing it up. I don't like what she's done, but her being a personal target by Trump makes me like her more. It shows that he really hates her, which if Trump hates someone or something probably means it's a good thing. Plus it looks like she might be a decent Democratic candidate in 2020.

Right, even if you could establish that your parents are Native Americans, and from tribe X, it doesn't mean you inherited those genes. You may have 0% Indian DNA.

So, a DNA test should be the first test.

Warren let Trump sucker her into making a fool out of herself. She was easily manipulated.

The real story is that Warren’s DNA was compared to Latin Americans, not Native Americans.

“The genetics researcher who reviewed Senator Elizabeth Warren’s, D-Mass, DNA in an attempt to counter President Trump’s ‘Pocahontas’ jibes compared her samples with those from people in Colombia, Mexico, and Peru rather than Native Americans in the U.S.,” the Washington Examiner reported.

“[The researcher] however, didn’t compare Ms. Warren’s DNA against Native Americans who live in the continental U.S., citing cultural reluctance to submit to DNA tests. Instead, he used recent samples from other countries whose populations presumably share a lineage during human settlement of the Americas about 15,000-25,000 years ago,” the newspaper noted.

Native Americans lived all over North and South America and often married outside the tribe. This is a non-issue from a scientific perspective.

She says that her family did.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.co ... index.html

To apply for recognition with the Cherokee Nation you must have a relative on the Dawes roll.So many people in the nation may have more white than Cherokee.
All it takes is one documented ancestor.
I don’t have an ancestor on Dawes, we were here in the Ozarks in the first Cherokee nation which was later moved to OK.Many people hid their ancestry since there was stigma at that time for being Native.So sometimes it’s very hard to find paper documents.People who were mixed blood at that time were more worried about passing as white than their preserving their heritage.
http://webtest2.cherokee.org/Services/T ... itizenship

There is an old saying "Garbage In Equals Garbage Out". If the genetic testing did not include the DNA of pure blood American Indians, I do not know how this test to confirm a person's origin can prove anything, in regards to American Indian origin. It is all very highly speculative at best.