The Boston Globe issued this lengthy correction to an article the newspaper ran on May 1, which purported to have a document proving Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren was part Cherokee, as she has claimed. “A record unearthed Monday shows that US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has a great-great-great grandmother listed in an 1894 document as a Cherokee, said a genealogist at the New England Historic and Genealogy Society,” the original Globe article read, with the headline, “Document ties Warren kin to Cherokee.”
Here’s the correction, issued today:
Warren has cited family lore and her aunt’s claim that her grandfather had “high cheekbones” as proof of her Native American ancestry. Recent reports have shown Warren was listed as a minority faculty member both at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania.
