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When Sen. Elizabeth Warren released a DNA test this month claiming distant Native American heritage, she set off criticism both from indigenous groups who considered it an offensive ploy and Republicans like President Trump, who’s repeatedly mocked the Massachusetts Democrat as “Pocahontas.”
But indigenous leaders say the brouhaha has overshadowed a more significant trend: More Native American candidates are running for office in California and around the country this year than any election cycle in recent memory, many of them spurred in part by Trump’s racially charged rhetoric.
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