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Senator Elizabeth Warren, a/k/a Fauxahontas, in her quest for perfect absurdity, now claims she has proof she’s Native American. That could explain some things.
Last year I wrote a story about two gentry class members of the US Senate from Massachusetts, Edward Markey and Elizabeth Warren. Senator Warren, now permanently tagged with the nickname of Fauxahontas has opposed every effort to bring more natural gas to Massachusetts and the rest of New England. As I stated earlier, she and Markey prefer Boston and environs rely upon Russian LNG, while they sleep comfortably in Washington DC.
Yesterday, Warren made herself look even sillier, if that was possible, by proclaiming she’s somewhere between one 256th and one 1,024th Native American. It was a predictable fiasco and ought to make Bay Staters question her judgment on matters of energy and environment, issues she puts at the top of the heap on her website.
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey — practice apparently makes perfect when it comes to gentry class smugness.
Fauxahontas got her nickname after claiming to be Native American and, more specifically, perhaps part Cherokee and part Delaware Indian. I was unaware of the Delaware part until a good friend called last night to tell me. It apparently came out in the latest attempt by Warren to rescue herself from an an over-the-top effort to be politically correct by crowing about her supposed Native American heritage. PowerLine has a great little summary of the blow-up and notes this:
Warren, when she was a law professor, listed herself as a minority on a legal directory reviewed by deans and hiring committees. The University of Pennsylvania “listed her as a minority faculty member,” and she was billed after her hire at Harvard Law School as the school’s “first woman of color.”
The problem is, of course, that she’s 0.4% Native American at best and perhaps as little as 0.1%. I’d love to claim Delaware Indian heritage, having grown up in an area where finding their artifacts was as easy as looking down on a walk across the cultivated river flats near my birthplace in Callicoon, NY. I came close on the Warren scale. My Great-Great-Great Grandfather Prosper Davis, from down near Port Jervis, took a Delaware Indian as his second wife, but, unfortunately, I descend from his first wife.
I even checked my Ancestry.com DNA site this morning to see if maybe there was just a hint of Native American heritage and I could find nothing. I did find, though, I was 2% or so Irish-Scottish. Having married a 100% Irish girl, this was great news, but as I dug further I found it was really a case of some Scottish folks imported into what is now Northern Ireland, where my wife’s folks also came, in a vain attempt to quell Irish rebellions with Scottish manners. They soon learned there was no hope of that and emigrated to the U.S. after just a couple generations.
My Irish got up and left me, in other words, if I’m truthful about it. Nevertheless, based on Elizabeth Warren’s standards I’m as Irish as can be. My 6th Great-Grandmother, Lenah Pendleton, in fact, was born in 1700 in County Down, Ireland (now Northern Ireland). That makes me, at a minimum, 0.8%, which makes me at least twice as Irish as Warren is Native American.
Pendleton came to America, ended up in Goshen, Orange County, New York and married a fellow named Peter Arnot. They had a daughter Hannah who married a Revoutionary War militia man named Gilbert Vail who was killed in the Battle of Minisink Ford by Mohawk Indian Chief Joseph Brant his group of Tories and Loyalist Iroquois. You might say I have every reason to have it in for the Mohawks and the Iroquois, though I assure you I don’t.
Elizabeth Warren may it in for them, though, despite her heritage. Here’s what MassLive.com reported last year, for example:
Warren and Markey in February asked FERC to rescind authorization for the Atlantic Bridge, a Spectra Energy upgrade to the Algonquin pipeline system. In Massachusetts, that project would place a major compressor station in Weymouth.
She proudly cites this on her website as well, saying:
I’ve worked to make Massachusetts’ voice heard on debates concerning proposed pipeline projects, and when these projects pose serious safety and environmental concerns, I have opposed them, as I did with the LNG storage expansion in Acushnet, a compressor station in Weymouth, and pipeline expansions in West Roxbury and Western Massachusetts.
The Algonquin pipeline, of course, simply plays on the Algonquin name and the language spoken by Delaware Indians (Lenape) and numerous others, but you get the point. Warren is just another demagogue willing to claim Delaware ancestry on the flimsiest of foundations, while happily trashing a pipeline named using their language. If the comparison seems tenuous, it’s still stronger than her claim to being Native American. That pipeline will also deliver much needed gas to New England to avoid the sort of energy crisis that made it dependent on Russian LNG last winter. It might even support an Indian casino or two. One thing is for sure, though; we’ve learned Elizabeth Warren’s judgment is as shallow as it gets and that applies to her energy policies and her Native American claims.
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