Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Elizabeth Warren found her Cherokee Connection! One of her relatives helped round up the Cherokee in Tennessee to send them on the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma!

"[Elizabeth Warren] found her Indian blood...not in her veins, but on her hands."
Democrat Elizabeth Warren finds that Native American Cherokee connection:  But it was not exactly what Ms. Warren was looking for!    Michael Patrick Leahy at Breitbart reports:   

As I pointed out in my article here on Sunday, no evidence supports this claim. O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford had no Cherokee heritage, was listed as "white" in the Census of 1860, and was most likely half Swedish and half English, Scottish, or German, or some combination thereof. (Note, the actual 1894 marriage license makes no claim of Cherokee ancestry.)

But the most stunning discovery about the life of O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford is that her husband, Ms. Warren's great-great-great grandfather, was apparently a member of the Tennessee Militia who rounded up Cherokees from their family homes in the Southeastern United States and herded them into government-built stockades in what was then called Ross’s Landing (now Chattanooga), Tennessee—the point of origin for the horrific Trail of Tears, which began in January, 1837.

This new information about Ms. Warren’s true heritage came as a direct result of a lead provided to me by William Jacobson over at Legal Insurrection, who in turn had received the information from one of his readers. Jacobson, who has questioned Warren's explanation for her law faculty listing, calls this discovery "the ultimate and cruelest irony" of the Warren Cherokee saga.
Wow. 

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  1. Nine-ElMay 9, 2012 at 7:06 AM

    Best comment on this kerfuffle ....."she found her Indian blood...not in her veins, but on her hands."

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