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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)I'm on your side on this one.
Bottom-line, if you're told by your family growing up you have XYZ heritage, which we have no reason to believe Warren is being dishonest about having happened ... YOU BELIEVE IT.
To me it's really that simple. She acted upon what her family told her, as just about anybody would.
This controversy is overblown.
Although the blood test (or at least, releasing the results thereof) was probably ill-advised. Esp. when it came back very low in %. I think had it come back resoundingly high, such that 'yes her grandmother was full-blood Cherokee' or whatever the relation was she'd described, many people would've responded differently.
Probably not the Cherokee Chief, who's protecting the authority to be the arbiter of Cherokee-ness (which is his tribes right, of course).
But many other people ... maybe even IQ45, would've been shut up if her genes showed a high association with Natives. But it didn't work out that way, so it basically backfired.
She should've kept the results to herself, frankly that was a mistake.
But IMHO that's her only real mistake around this whole issue.