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Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who since 1986 has falsely claimed she has Native American ancestry despite having no credible evidence to support that assertion, joined 49 fellow senators who signed a letter to the NFL on Thursday urging the league to endorse a name change for the Washington, D.C. team that has been known since 1937 as the Redskins.
"It's time for the NFL to endorse a name change for the Washington, D.C. football team," the letter read. Warren and her fellow senators, 47 of whom are Democrats and two of whom are independents, said if the NFL failed to take this action it would be "endorsing slurs against Native Americans."
Twila Barnes, an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation and genealogist who hasextensively documented the false nature of Warren's Native American ancestry claims, told Breitbart News on Saturday "while I'd like to see the name of the Washington football team changed to something other than the R-word, it is hypocritical of Warren to sign a letter that says, 'At the heart of sovereignty for tribes is their identity.'"
"This is exactly what we Cherokees who spoke out against her false claims tried to explain during her campaign. Our identity is one of the few things we American Indians have left. Warren took our identity and used it for personal gain when she had no right to do so," Barnes said.
The American Association of Law Schools listed Warren's identity as a minority until she received an endowed chair at Harvard Law. The school almost exclusively employs professors hailing from top-ten ranked law schools. Warren graduated from Rutgers law, which US News and World Report ranks at #81.
"She had no respect for our tribal sovereignty then and it's clear she doesn't have any respect for it now," Barnes added. "If she did, she'd admit she was wrong for disrespecting our tribal sovereignty and claiming to be a Cherokee and then she'd apologize to us for doing it."
In the letter addressed to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Senator Warren and her fellow senators said "we have heard from every national Tribal organization ...[who] represent more than 2 million Native Americans across the country and more than 300 Tribes with government-to-government relationships with the United States. These organizations have passed resolutions in support of a name change as they find the Washington, D.C. football team name to be racially offensive."
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