After proclaiming at an August 2018 Netroots Nation conference that she will be the “first Native American woman in Congress,” Rep.-elect Deb Haaland (D-NM) doubled down on 12/11/18 on her claim that she is the first Native American woman elected to Congress during POLITICO’s sixth annual “Women Rule Summit” in Washington, D.C – months after Sen. Elizabeth Warren released her DNA test attempting to prove Native ancestry