and the reason that this washington post reporting is significant is because we now have a visual, elizabeth warren writing in her own words and her own handwriting describing her race as american indian. so this is not just a checked box and this is appears to be an example of warren herself explicitly describing her race as american indian regardless of how long ago this happened, and i should note that a warren aide was pointing out to cnn that this was not a part of her state bar application, but rather a form that she filled out after she was already admitted to the bar and an obvious important distinction, but i m not sure, frankly, that this is going to be a distinction that people and voters necessarily understand or care about particularly those who are going to be looking at elizabeth warren in an unfavorable way for whatever reason. i also wanted to read a statement that we got from elizabeth warren s spokesperson. it reads senator warren has said she is not a citizen of any