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By Lila Brown, California Black Media A growing number of Black Americans, relying on newly digitized federal records and other sources, are discovering direct bloodlines to Native American ancestors. These discoveries are inspiring individuals to trace and claim their Native ancestry, leading some to apply for citizenship with tribal nations. When 32-year-old Daniel Bruce Kelly, an

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Lillian Cornelia Vasquez passed away peacefully in her sleep in the late afternoon of November 15 at the Hospice House in Eureka. She was 65 years old.

Battling racism, discrimination, and exclusion, seven artists formed the Professional Native Indians Artists Inc. to fight for professional respect and political self-determination.

For the many conversations that weve had together. >> reporter: questioning over warrens past claims to native american ancestry have swirled for years going back to her first senate campaign against republican scott brown. >> professional warren claimed she was a native american, a person of color and as you could see shes not. >> reporter: the oklahoma native described herself as native american in numerous personnel documents early in her teaching career a revelation that sparked furious back...

American ancestry have swirled for years. going back to her first senate campaign against republican scott brown. >> professor warren claimed that she was a native american, a person of color and as you could see shes not. >> reporter: the oklahoma native described herself as native american in numerous personnel documents early in her teaching career, a revelation that sparked furious backlash. last fall she responded to t the -- the op going criticism which showed distant native ancestry. >> t...

Im not a citizen of a tribe. >> were there any benefits to that? >> no. "boston globe" did a full investigation. >> kind of like the original rachel dolezal, a little bit. a white woman pretending to be black. >> this is what i learned from my family. >> okay. were back around the table. nia, we were talking about this during the break. >> i thought the rachel dolezal comparison was a real lo blow. this is a woman who painted her skin, darkened her skin and got a perm and passed ford black and w...

Native ancestry and belonging are devastating to a community. why she says she did it, she always heard these stories, as her mom and her sisters were getting older, they were talking more about their native -- >> my family was gladiators. >> thats funny. thats funny, rob. shes talked about feeling more connected. im not saying its the right thing to do, its just not crazy and she wasnt a fraud. and we have no evidence to this point that she ever benefited from it herself. >> she gamed the syste...

When almost every other presidential candidate hasnt had a relationship with native communities. i dont want to get past that point of saying we have to focus on her my yopically and let the other folks off the hook who havent proffered forth a good idea regarding how theyre going to work with the sovereign nations that exist within the united states. >> especially since we saw the suppression of native american votes in north dakota in the last lelection that has not bee addressed and donald tr...

Native ancestry. m.j. lee has the part of that story. >> reporter: senator warren has a busy 24 hours in iowa and first trip since flouncing her explore tocommittee over the io. making clear what her important issues are going to be in her eventual 2020 campaign. now, one question that she got from an audience in sioux city on saturday was about her decision to release the dna test about her native american ancestry and a person in the audience asking her why she decided to release the results o...