Flanagan’s Native-Senate push rekindles Warren ancestry controversy

Minnesota Democrat Peggy Flanagan, an Ojibwe member of the White Earth Nation, uses a fundraising email to frame her U.S. Senate bid as a bid to elect the first Native American woman in the Senate, touting Elizabeth Warren as an endorser. The move brings back attention to Warren’s past Native-identity claims, which she has since walked back, triggering conservative criticism and social-media commentaries. Neither Flanagan’s campaign nor Warren’s office immediately commented on the claims.