Article snippet: “For Elizabeth Warren to center a Native American ancestry test as the next move in her fight with Republicans is to make yet another strike — even if unintended — against tribal sovereignty,” TallBear, who is “descended from the Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma,” said in the statement. TallBear said Warren has declined to meet with the Cherokee Nation – Native Americans who have challenged her claim. “This shows that she focuses on and actually privileges DNA company definitions of this debate, which are ultimately settler-colonial definition of who is Indigenous,” TallBear said in the statement. “She and much of the US. American public privilege the voices of (mostly white) genome scientists and implicitly cede them the power to define Indigenous identity.” TallBear makes her own claims, including that ancestry tests, are “one of the privileges of whiteness to define and control everyone else’s identity.” TallBear’s statement said that tribal governments do not use DNA tests to confirm who is and who is not Native American or Indigenous. Breitbart News reported: In her tweet, TallBear includes a link to an analysis she wrote two years ago about Warren and her Native American claims and another to the book she wrote entitled, Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. Follow Penny Starr on Twitter Link to the full article to read more