{"id":2685,"date":"2012-09-27T08:01:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T12:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2012-09-27T08:01:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T12:01:30","slug":"cherokee-nation-chief-demands-apology-from-scott-brown-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/09\/cherokee-nation-chief-demands-apology-from-scott-brown-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherokee Nation Chief Demands Apology From Scott Brown Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The principal chief of the Cherokee Nation is calling on Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., to apologize for a video that allegedly shows members of his staff imitating &#8220;stereotypical &#8216;war whoops chants.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As WBUR&#8217;s Curt Nickisch reported Tuesday for All Things Considered, Brown&#8217;s supporters were filmed imitating &#8220;tomahawk chops&#8221; at a rally in Dorchester, Mass., over the weekend. The antics were apparently directed at Elizabeth Warren, Brown&#8217;s Democratic opponent in the Senate race; Warren has been criticized for telling previous academic employers that she has Native American heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Brown and the GOP are under fire for supporters&#8217; actions that &#8220;goes far beyond what is appropriate and proper in political discourse,&#8221; Cherokee Chief Bill John Baker said in a statement Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/itsallpolitics\/2012\/09\/26\/161840931\/cherokee-nation-chief-demands-apology-from-scott-brown-campaign?ft=1&amp;f=1014\" target=\"_blank\">Cherokee Nation Chief Demands Apology From Scott Brown Campaign : It&#8217;s All Politics : NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The principal chief of the Cherokee Nation is calling on Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., to apologize for a video that allegedly shows members of his staff imitating &#8220;stereotypical &#8216;war whoops chants.&#8217;&#8221; As WBUR&#8217;s Curt Nickisch reported Tuesday for All Things Considered, Brown&#8217;s supporters were filmed imitating &#8220;tomahawk chops&#8221; at a rally in Dorchester, Mass., over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,22,7],"tags":[1536,1043,1524,242],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2686,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions\/2686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}