Okay, lets see if this sheds a little light on the subject.
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-...behind-elizabeth-warren-and-her-native-ameri/
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The first mention
Warren’s heritage wasn’t something she brought up during her 2012 Senate race against Republican Scott Brown.
The questions started with a
Boston Herald story on
April 27, 2012.
"Elizabeth Warren’s avowed Native American heritage — which the candidate rarely if ever discusses on the campaign trail — was once touted by embattled Harvard Law School officials who cited her claim as proof of their faculty’s diversity," the article began. What the article revealed dated back more than a decade to diversity records kept by Harvard.
At a time when law schools faced public pressure to show greater ethnic diversity within their faculty, the university’s
Crimson newspaper quoted a law school spokesman
in 1996 saying Warren was Native American.
The
Boston Globe followed the
Herald with a report that the Association of American Law Schools listed Warren as a minority law teacher each year from 1986 to 1994. In that time, Warren
went from being a law professor at the University of Texas, to the University of Pennsylvania, and finally in 1995 to Harvard University.
That association received faculty lists from law schools and sent personal profile forms to new faculty members. The group first asked about minority status in 198
and this little tidbit
Warren’s opponent
Scott Brown jumped on the revelations and called on her to apologize for Harvard having touted her dubious ethnic roots. Brown also said she had used an invented minority status to make herself more attractive to law schools.
Warren refused to apologize, saying she didn’t know Harvard was promoting her that way. She did confirm, however, that she had told the law school association that she held a minority status.
"I listed myself (in the) directory in the hopes that might mean that I would be invited to a luncheon, a group something, with people who are like I am," Warren told reporters
May 3, 2012. "Nothing like that ever happened. That was absolutely not the use for it and so I stopped checking it off."
