Article snippet: WASHINGTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren on Friday denounced the federal government’s treatment of Native Americans and offered a suite of proposals to improve the lives of indigenous people, a plan that won praise for its ambition but risked reviving a fraught subject for her presidential campaign. In a 9,000-word post on the website Medium, Warren called for the federal government to do more to honor its treaties with tribal nations, safeguard tribal lands, and improve funding for programs that provide Native Americans with health care, education, housing, and other critical services. “As a nation, we are failing in our legal, political, and moral obligations toward tribal governments and indigenous peoples,” Warren wrote. “Washington owes native communities respect — and so much more.” The proposal represents Warren’s most exhaustive effort since launching her presidential campaign to address a policy area that has become tricky terrain due to the long-simmering controversy around her own claims of Native American heritage. And it did not satisfy some of her critics on the issue. “I think Elizabeth Warren should be lauded for setting the bar high,” said David Cornsilk, a Cherokee historian and genealogist who praised Warren’s recommendations on health care. “Still, in all of those words, those hundreds and hundreds of words, she has not addressed in an adequate way the impact of her false claim of indigenous heritage on the sovereignty of indigenous tribes.” War... Link to the full article to read more