Did Elizabeth Warren’s Great-Great-Great Grandfather round up Cherokees for the Trail of Tears?

  When Elizabeth Warren first came under fire for claiming to be a Native-American on law school directories she claimed that she did have Native-American blood in her family and pointed to her great-great-great grandmother as proof. Even if it was proven that her great-great-great grandmother was part Cherokee it would only make Elizabeth Warren 1/32 Native-American–hardly the minority she seemed to be when Harvard University was using her heritage to show the school was racially diverse.

  But genealogists at the New England Historic Genealogical Society have not been able to find any tangible link between Elizabeth Warren and the Cherokees so it seems quite likely that Elizabeth Warren has lied about her heritage, and she did so for ten years or more. But, if this report is true, there could be an interesting link between one of Elizabeth Warren’s ancestors  and Native-Americans after all.

  If the story is true than Elizabeth Warren’s great-great-great grandmother did have a tie to Native-Americans because her husband (Warren’s great-great-great grandfather) was a member of the East Tennessee Mounted Infantry Volunteer Militia and was actually involved in rounding up Cherokees to prepare them to march in the Trail of Tears.

  This is what happens when you live a life of deceit, eventually it catches up with you. Lizzy, you have some explaining to do.