Four Cherokee activists, who hoped to confront Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren over her Native American claims, are heading home today disappointed.
“It’s like we didn’t exist,” said Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes of the response they got this week from the Warren camp. She said the campaign never returned their calls despite a promise that staffers would meet with them.
The Cherokees, who come from Oklahoma, Oregon and Missouri, plan to start raising funds to bring a larger group out to Boston later this summer and in September for one of the Senate debates between Warren and U.S. Sen. Scott Brown.
Barnes called the four-day mission a success despite Warren snubbing them.
“We had the secondary goal of educating the public on Indian identity and that we’re educated, articulate people and we accomplished that,” Barnes said.
The four women planned to give Warren a birthday present — a balloon bouquet — but thought better of it.
“We decided since she didn’t want to meet with us, she didn’t deserve a birthday gift.”
The Cherokees wanted Warren to apologize for representing herself as a minority law professor based on her as-yet unsupported claims of Native American heritage.
The Warren campaign dismissed the women for their links to a “right-wing extremist,” Cornell Law Professor William Jacobson, who runs the conservative blog Legal Insurrection.
Jacobson acknowledged arranging media interviews, but the women said they are politically left-leaning and were on a nonpartisan mission.
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