She has been making this claim for decades.Are you sure about that?
Edit: What I mean is that I'm sure she did it for political "cool points" but did it actually affect hiring? I don't think grad schools had those kind of quotas (unlike undergrad) until very recently.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/elizabeth-warren-indian-card/
Her critics have claimed that she used it benefit her legal and teaching career. At the very least there's proof that she used it to sell a cookbook with plagiarized recipes.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...rd-COPIES-famous-FRENCH-chefs-techniques.html