Boston Globe Correction: Actually, Still No Proof Warren Part Cherokee

Published May 15, 2012 2:00pm ET



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:

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