I grew up in a little Norwegian fishing community that was absorbed into Seattle proper. Just about every family that wasn’t pure Norwegian liked to boast about having an Indian princess in their ...

The number of Americans who claim Native American ancestry is growing and the tribe claimed most often is Cherokee. But the popular story of Cherokee blood is a myth for most Americans. And Anne-Marie ...

I had never heard the term “pretendian” until The Star’s story about three KU professors who have come under fire for claiming Native American ancestry. There was a time when I was a pretendian, even ...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has apologized to Cherokee Nation leaders over her attempt to use a DNA test to confirm her past claims to Native American ancestry, the tribe said. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has ...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has tried to put a nagging controversy behind her by apologizing privately to a leader of the Cherokee Nation for her decision to take a DNA test to prove her Native American ...

If Sen. Elizabeth Warren thought that releasing her DNA test results showing Native American ancestry would neutralize a Republican line of attack, she was wrong. The test — part of her strategic ...