Yikes, talk about telling lies that not only bite you, the truth bites back even harder.   A real trail of tears indeed.
Apparently Elizabeth Warren’s story about being 1/32 Native American Indian in order to participate in minority-abled affirmative action benefits, is not only false but the genology tracers show her great great great Grandpappy, Johnathan Crawford,  was an Indian Hunter in Chattanooga 1837.   Oh, the irony….

Prof. Jacobson – Since confirming this genealogical information was outside my comfort zone, I forwarded the information to author and genealogist Michael Patrick Leahy, who already had written about and investigated Warren’s genealogy.
Leahy reaches the conclusion, based on a variety of sources, that Jonathan Crawford was indeed a member of the militia which rounded up Cherokees in the prelude to the Trail of Tears.
Leahy lays out the evidence supporting his conclusion in a post at Breitbart.com, Elizabeth Warren Ancestor Rounded Up Cherokees for Trail of Tears:

But the most stunning discovery about the life of O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford is that her husband, Ms. Warren’s great-great-great grandfather, was apparently a member of the Tennessee Militia who rounded up Cherokees from their family homes in the Southeastern United States and herded them into government-built stockades in what was then called Ross’s Landing (now Chattanooga), Tennessee—the point of origin for the horrific Trail of Tears, which began in January, 1837.

Why is this the ultimate and cruelest irony?
Who Warren’s great-great-great grandparents were or what they did should be irrelevant, except that Warren has incorporated“lore” about those victimized ancestors into her own personal, professional and, now, political narratives.   (continue reading)