Article snippet: NORMAN, Okla. — When a group appeared with a video camera among the single-story bungalows on their street, the neighbors were mystified. Delores Clark was dirty from tending the garden. Sheena Jones had just moved in. Neither of them recognized the woman who was being filmed. It was not until last week, when Senator Elizabeth Warren’s biographical video about her family history rocketed around the Internet, that they realized who had been standing outside Clark’s house. It was Warren herself, gathering footage to emphasize her family’s roots on the Oklahoma plains. “I never knew she had any connection to Oklahoma at all,” Stephanie Comer, Clark’s daughter, said as she stood in front of her mother’s house — where Warren lived more than 50 years ago — the other day. By showing her walking by her old house here and weaving her family history into that of Oklahoma, the video highlighted her ties to the city of Norman, pulling a place that is 1,700 miles from Cambridge to the center of her origin story. That subtle point was perhaps equally as important in the long run than the more prominent goal of the video: It was part of a strategy to quiet the questions over her claims of Native American ancestry by revealing a DNA test that showed she likely had a distant indigenous ancestor. “Any serious presidential candidate’s going to have a biography like this,” said Michael Crespin, a professor of political science at the University of Oklahoma. “She needs to throw of... Link to the full article to read more