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   Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren acknowledged for the   
   first time late Wednesday night that she told Harvard University and   
   the University of Pennsylvania that she was Native American   
      
   Warren’s statement is her first acknowledgment that she identified   
   herself as Native American to the Ivy League schools.   
      
   When the issue first surfaced last month, Warren said she only learned   
   Harvard was claiming her as a minority when she read it in the Boston   
   Herald.   
      
   The official further said that Warren had been unable to answer   
   questions about the issue before now because she had forgotten many of   
   the details and had asked her campaign to thoroughly review the   
   evidence. The campaign declined to say whether Warren provided the   
   information to Harvard and Penn verbally or by checking a box on a   
   form.   
      
   Federal statistics like those in the Harvard records, which were   
   compiled for the Department of Labor, rely on a definition of “Native   
   American’’ that requires both ancestry and an official affiliation   
   with a tribe or community. The 1992-93 and 1995-96 Harvard reports   
   indicate the university relied on that definition during those years   
   as well as the years since   
      
   Warren has not met any of those standards. Though she continues to   
   consider herself Native American, she has not provided any   
   genealogical evidence.   
      
   Before Warren’s time in the Ivy League - in the early 1980s - she   
   indicated on an official University of Texas form that she was white.   
   She also had the option to indicate Native American heritage at that   
   point, but did not check that box.   
      
   News of the Harvard records left Ken Pepion, the administrator in   
   charge of the university’s Native American Program from 1999 to 2003,   
   confounded.   
      
   Pepion said he was personally troubled by the idea that someone might   
   indicate Native American heritage on a form solely “for the purpose of   
   gaining some leverage in terms of either a job position or entry into   
   a competitive college or university.’’   
      
   http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012/05/   
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