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  Cherokees launch website targeting Elizabeth Warren over Native American heritage claims
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AuthorRobert Rizzuto
MediaNewspaper - Springfield Republican
News DateThursday, May 31, 2012 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0
Description"The latest wave in the ocean of controversy over Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's heritage claims involves a group of Cherokees who have launched a website [Link] and Facebook group calling the Harvard Law School professor's claims of Native American lineage "harmful and offensive."

For several weeks, Warren, who is fighting for the Democratic nod to take on U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., in November, has faced questions about whether she is actually Cherokee as she claimed she learned through family lore and whether she used her heritage to boost herself as an affirmative action hire.

Although Warren has repeatedly denied such claims, and the universities that previously hired her released statements saying they weren't aware of such heritage claims or that they played no part in her hiring, the specter of such allegations has lingered.

Twila Barnes, an amateur Cherokee genealogist in Missouri who has been an outspoken critic of Warren's Native American claims, said the new website aims to encourage the Harvard Law School professor to denounce her previous claims of Cherokee ancestry."
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