Across America, it's Indigenous Peoples' Day (also known as Columbus Day).
Tribes will celebrate with ceremonies, dancing, speeches, and more.
But you'd never know it, judging by fake Native American Sen. Elizabeth Warren's website and social media.
The Senator hasn't even bothered to tweet out a message marking the day, with her last posted content as of 1:08PM Eastern Time having gone up yesterday– her advocating for a proposed tax hike she wants to levy on higher earners.
Warren, who famously tried to pass herself off as Cherokee– and hilariously might be one of a relatively small chunk of people born in Oklahoma who has zero Native American ancestry– has over the last decade or so been making herself even more of an enemy to tribes across the country as her policy priorities run into persistent conflicts with tribes' economic development initiatives.
It turns out that the fake Native American is not keen on tribes using their sovereignty to enter into the fintech space and improve their economic lot, much as the Osage did with oil in her native Oklahoma in the early 20th century, and tribes nationwide have done with on-site gaming and destination tourism.
Warren's brainchild, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has spent most of its existence under Presidents Obama and Biden battling with tribes over fintech regulation (the record under Trump has been more favorable). Multiple progressive states have similarly tried to regulate tribal businesses, despite the fact that as a matter of federal law, states lack the power to do so.
So maybe it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that the former contributor to "Pow Wow Chow" who had to apologize for faking her ancestry didn't see fit to mark today's occasion.
If you're honest, "Ute" have guessed as much, right?
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