The Weekly Standard’s Mark Hemingway has a blogpost up on how Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren, the Democrat who’s running against Massachusetts Republican Senator Scott Brown, identified herself as having Native American ancestry when Harvard Law was criticized for having an insufficiently diverse faculty in the 1990s. Aides explained that Warren’s “family lore” was that she had Cherokee and Delaware Indian ancestors. That’s plausible, since Warren grew up in Oklahoma, much of which was originally Indian Territory into which Andrew Jackson drove some 46,000 Indians over the Trail or Tears. Lots of people in Oklahoma have Indian ancestors, including I suspect many who are entirely unaware of it. I’m ready to accept Elizabeth Warren’s story of “family lore” and to believe that the family lore could very well be true.