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Herschel Walker has ‘provided no evidence’ to back up claim that he is part Native American: reporter
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Herschel Walker has ‘provided no evidence’ to back up claim that he is part Native American: reporter
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On the campaign trail, Herschel Walker — the MAGA Republican and former football star who is trying to unseat incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in Georgia — has been bragging that he found out from his mother that he is part Native American. But according to Daily Beast reporter Matt Young, “Walker and his campaign have provided no evidence for his claims.”
In an article published by the Beast on October 13, Young explains, “In January, at a campaign event at the University of Georgia, Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker boldly announced that he had just found out through his mother that he is ‘40 percent Native American.’ In the following months, the former NFL star would repeat the claim several times, with slightly different twists, though each time, he said he had just learned the news.”
Young notes, however, that “some digging by” HuffPost’s Jennifer Bendery “has shown no links” between “Walker and the Native American community so far.”
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“Cherokee Nation, the largest of three recognized tribes in the U.S., told HuffPost it had no record of Walker in its database,” Young reports. “The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians did not respond to HuffPost’s request for comment. Walker’s mother, Christine, spoke to the site and said ‘she has no idea if an immediate ancestor was full-blooded Cherokee.’”
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