After DNA Disaster, National Congress Of American Indians Shames Warren — BAD

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On Monday morning, Senator Elizabeth Warren’s decades-long claims to be Native American came crashing down as the results of her DNA test were revealed. Now, to add insult to injury, the National Congress of American Indians — the nation’s largest and oldest Native American organization — has shamed the Massachusetts Democrat, and it’s bad.

Elizabeth Warren (left), A Native American laboratory technician (right) (Photo Credit: The Washington Post/Getty Images, National Congress of American Indians)

The results of Senator Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test show that, although she has identified herself as a minority for years in a possible attempt to gain professional advancement, she actually has no more claim to American Indian heritage than the average white American.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is touting a DNA test that shows she has, at most, 1/64 Native American ancestry, and possibly as little as 1/1024 — which means she may have no more Native American DNA than the average white American, and less than many other Americans.

Even 1/64 — corresponding to one great-great-great-great grand parent — would not qualify Warren for membership in any Native American tribe, nor justify her claims to Native American identity. [Source: Breitbart]

Moreover, Warren’s DNA sample wasn’t even compared to the DNA of actual Native Americans — samples from Mexico, Peru, and Colombia were used. So, at best, she is between 1/64th and 1/1,024th Mexican, Peruvian, or Colombian. But, again, she has no more claim to a minority status than the average white American.

The analysis of Warren’s DNA was done by Carlos D. Bustamante, a Stanford University professor and expert in the field who won a 2010 MacArthur fellowship, also known as a genius grant, for his work on tracking population migration via DNA analysis.

Warren provided a sample of her DNA to a private lab in Georgia in August, according to one of the senator’s aides. The data from that test was sent to Bustamante and his team for analysis. Warren received the report last week.

To make up for the dearth of Native American DNA, Bustamante used samples from Mexico, Peru, and Colombia to stand in for Native American. [Source: Boston Globe]

As if all this weren’t bad enough, the National Congress of American Indians — the nation’s largest and oldest Native American organization — has come forward to say that you cannot even prove Native American ancestry through DNA anyway. A paper on the NCAI website, written to answer Native American leaders’ concerns about claims people make that they are of American Indian heritage, states that it is not possible to determine such heritage through DNA.

“One type of DNA testing called DNA fingerprinting can be used to help document close biological relationships, such as those between parents and children, as well as among other close family members,” states the paper. “Other kinds of testing for genetic ancestry use markers to see how similar an individual is to a broader population or group, based on probabilities drawn from databases of research on populations and group genetic characteristics,” it adds.

“However, no DNA testing can ‘prove’ an individual is American Indian and/or Alaska Native, or has ancestry from a specific tribe,” the paper goes on. “Genetic testing can provide evidence for the biological relationship between two individuals (e.g., paternity testing), but there are no unique genes for individual tribes or American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) ancestry in general,” it continues.

“While research scientists have found that some genetic markers are found mostly only in AI/ANs, these markers are neither unique to AI/ANs nor predictive of AI/AN identity,” it adds.

The results of Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test have not proven that she is Native American, which begs the question: Why did she release the test in the first place? For most, it only makes her look like a liar and an idiot.

With only weeks to go before the November midterms, it’s not looking good for Elizabeth Warren and her Democratic cronies. And, they only have themselves to blame.

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