Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor, is challenging Scott Brown(R-MA) for his Senate seat in this November’s election. For decades now during her tenure, she’s been claiming a percentage of Cherokee blood in her ethic background. But authentic Native Americans aren’t entirely sure that the progressive professor isn’t speaking with a forked tongue.
 
From Michelle Malkin’s blog back in May;

Warren has claimed questionable Native American minority status for years to reap career “diversity” benefits. Now, Cherokee leaders, campaign rival GOP Sen. Scott Brown and an army of Twitter detractors have called her out for gaming the racial-preference system. Live by identity politics, die by identity politics.
 
The Boston Herald reported last Friday that Harvard administrators “prominently touted Warren’s Native American background … in an effort to bolster their diversity hiring record in the ’90s as the school came under heavy fire for a faculty that was then predominantly white and male.” When asked for proof of her tribal heritage, Warren’s campaign first denied that she had ever bragged about it. But from 1986 to 1995, Warren listed herself as a minority professor in a professional law school directory.

 
At the DNC Convention this week, Native Americans are keeping the pressure on. The Boston Herald’s “Truth Squad” has the story:
 

Harlyn Geronimo, the great-grandson of the legendary Apache warrior, said he didn’t know the details of Warren’s claims but wanted to make sure she didn’t try to “take advantage” of her Cherokee claims. Warren has offered no proof of her ancestry but says she is relying on “stories” relayed to her by her family.
 
“I wouldn’t vote for anybody that is being dishonest, and it’s unfair to our people,” he said.

The Native American Council has invited the professor to a meeting tomorrow to discuss her claim to Cheorkee heritage. So OK Ms.Warren, now’s your chance to prove you really don’t deserve the “Fauxchontas” epithet. Let’s see some of that famous Democrat transparency…