she was listed as a minority member of Harvard's faculty or something, they said it was a mistake and she said it was a family tale she believed but had never used it for advantage or whatever
so essentially it was a conservative claim of affirmative action, only extra unjust, only there was no documents either way... but it still clearly ate at her because she went and had the DNA test done to try and prove it, that blew up in her face and she weirdly apologized to Native Americans and the Cherokee
now there's a form where she had no reason to put anything but white and put American Indian, and she's basically all but admitting there's more documents out there like this
it's one of those situations where rather than kill this years ago quietly, she threw it out front right as she launched a Presidential campaign, and it only got worse because now she's been exposed as lying about it and there might be worse out there? who wants to touch a campaign with that potentially hanging over it?
it's one of those stupid things where a person just can't stop picking at it, getting it infected, making it worse than the original injury ever would have been, etc.