President Donald Trump elicited applause from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., on Tuesday night when he asked lawmakers in his joint address to Congress whether they wanted Ukraine to fight Russia through the end of his second term.
“Do you want to keep it going for another five years?” Trump asked the chamber. The president pointed out Warren’s support for the war with his long-time nickname referencing the senator’s fake Indian identity.
“Pocahontas says yes,” he said.
Warren’s political career has been plagued with controversy surrounding her previous self-identification as a Cherokee Indian. For decades she claimed to be part American Indian in the absence of any evidence and said during her 2012 Senate race that she claimed Cherokee ancestry because her family has “high cheek bones like all of the Indians do.” The law professor at Harvard went as far as to contribute recipes to an Indian cookbook titled “Pow Wow Chow,” labeling herself as Cherokee under each. MassLive, a local online Massachusetts website, reported on the cookbook controversy in 2012:
For almost a decade in the 1980s and ’90s, Warren listed her Native American ancestry in a directory of law professors compiled by the Association of American Law Schools, a move she said was to meet people “who are like I am,” referring to the stories of Native American ancestry which were passed down by family members. When the directory proved fruitless as far as networking with other Native Americans, Warren said she stopped checking that box on the directory listing.
The Daily Mail reported that the recipes appeared to be plagiarized from famous French chefs featured in The New York Times “and other publications.”
Warren released the results of a DNA test to prove her ancestry just before launching a presidential run in 2018. The results failed to offer any proof Warren is a descendant from any American Indians, let alone the Cherokee tribe. The test results merely “strongly support[ed]” the possibility that she might have one American Indian relative up to 10 generations ago.
The Cherokee Nation, long offended by Warren’s claim to tribal ancestry, demanded the senator rescind her false assertions of blood association with the Indian group and called her use of DNA to claim Cherokee ancestry as “inappropriate and wrong.” Warren has since apologized several times and said she no longer identifies as an American Indian. The Democrats still featured Warren on a DNC panel for the “Native American Caucus” in 2020.
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