It wasn't an insult. Warren is a lying bigoted fake Indian and white privileged appropriator of a minority culture. She deserves to be verbally flayed.
@CatherineofAragon Hey, there, I am 1/16 Choctaw Indian but I don't have, in my possession, a paper to prove it. The family knows, back in time, a Faulkner in our family married a Choctaw Indian woman when that tribe stopped for a time in Arkansas on their way to Oklahoma where the government made them go. That trek was known as the "Trail of Tears". My maiden name was Marcella Faulkner and my Faulkner grandparents and those before them lived in Arkansas at the original family homestead farm. My grandfather Faulkner died before I was born so I didn't know him. I do remember the grandmother when we would visit there every Christmas. My mother had me when she was in her 40s, so I missed knowing early relatives. My father and the rest of the older Faulkner family members knew about the Indian part of the family. It wasn't a big thing, it just happened and they knew it.
I don't know why Warren says she is part Indian, how far back she is going to try to find that. If it is true, where is her family connection to it? At least, I know when/how it happened in our family - where is her explanation/family connection? Does any other one in her family also say that?
By the way, my name isn't Pocahontas.
