Elizabeth Warren has released a detailed plan focused on making things right with Native Americans
Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Deb Haaland, co-sponsors of an upcoming legislative proposal to help Native Americans. Photo: Getty Images As you may recall, last year Senator Elizabeth Warren tried to end conservative criticism and mockery of an old claim of Native American ancestry in a professional directory by accepting Donald Trump’s challenge to take a DNA test.
“I did the Pocahontas thing. I hit her really hard and it looked like she was down and out but that was too long ago,” he said of Warren, who is seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination to run against Trump in 2020.“But don’t worry, we will revive it. It can be revived. It will be revived and it can be revived very easily and very quickly and we’re going to have some fun in the state of New Hampshire,” he said.
Her plan would also revoke permits for the infamous Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines that impinge on tribal lands. Warren is also pushing for full tribal criminal-justice jurisdiction over crimes against Natives committed by non-Natives, as HuffPost explains: As Politico notes, this plan is twice as long as any of her other policy initiatives, and includes a symbolically important legislative partnership:
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