U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren on Friday unveiled her latest policy plan, which aims to empower Native American tribes ...
WASHINGTON: US Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren on Friday unveiled her latest policy plan, which aims to empower Native American tribes through land protection and law enforcement reforms and boost financial support for chronically underfunded health and education programs.
Warren's Cherokee Nation heritage claims have dogged her since her first Senate run in 2012 - and intensified after President Donald Trump seized on the criticism and repeatedly called her"Pocahontas". In February she apologised to Cherokee leaders and took a DNA test in a widely criticised effort to prove her Native American ancestry.
Part of Warren's plan includes a legislative proposal, which she will introduce with Haaland in Congress later this year. It would guarantee federal funds for Indian health, education, roads and other programmes that are usually at the mercy of annual Congressional budget fights and elevate tribal affairs to a Cabinet-level priority.
Warren's plan would also boost federal funding to help tribal governments buy back land and hold it in federal trust.
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