Myrna Demby-Goldfinger, American-Indian. “High school graduate.”  1938. She was about age 17 when this photograph was taken. Photographer unknown.

By Paul Goldfinger, Native-American   (This article first appeared on Blogfinger on October 1, 2012. We are reposting it now for those who missed it the first time)

Elizabeth Warren is running for Senate in Massachusetts.  She claims to be part American-Indian based on family folklore. Some people are skeptical because she looks like a clogger in an Irish dance competition.  Her story reminds me of my Mom: Myrna Demby-Goldfinger.  (I gave her the hyphen posthumously. She would have liked that.)

Mom had a vivid imagination and she loved to joke, sing and tell stories. Sometimes you couldn’t be sure if she was telling the “emmis ” (Yiddish for the truth) or whether she was telling tall-tales.  It didn’t usually matter, because she was always fun.

One of her consistent  assertions…