FOXNews.com: Warren defends personal history, tells Brown that family is off-limits

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Warren defends personal history, tells Brown that family is off-limits May 31st 2012, 19:56 Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren says in a recently discovered video that she repeatedly had to explain her predicament in the late 1970s as the "first nursing mother to take a bar exam in the state of New Jersey." However, the Massachusetts Democrat found herself explaining again, amid questions about the validity of such a claim. "Try explaining [breast-feeding breaks] 1,000 times," to test proctors, Warren told an audience at the 2011 Chicago Humanities Festival in 2011, in a video posted on the group's website. The episode is another in a series in which Warren, who is attempting to unseat Massachusetts GOP Sen. Scott Brown, has had to defend or clarify statements. And she is now pushing back, saying she learned about her Native American heritage from her parents and grandparents. "Scott Brown even questioned the honesty of my parents," Warren said in a letter to supporters. "They are not fair game. … Keep fighting the smears." The letter followed two Warren campaign statements that appeared to attempt to move past the candidate's personal history and get people focused on voter issues. "Elizabeth was making a point about the very serious challenges she faced as a working mom -- from taking an all-day bar exam when she was still breast-feeding, to finding work as a lawyer that would accommodate a mom with two small children," the Warren campaign said about the candidate's comments on the 2011 video. Warren also publicly acknowledged for the first time that she told officials at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania that she had Native American heritage. The Warren campaign said Wednesday night the candidate gave that information to the schools only after she had been hired by them. Warren, who taught at Harvard Law School, has provided no documentation of Native American heritage, despite saying it is part of her family lore "When I was a little girl, I learned about my family's heritage the same way everyone else does -- from my parents and grandparents," Warren said in the letter. "I never had any reason to doubt them. What kid asks their grandparents for legal documentation to go along with their family stories?" Brown, who is seeking a second term, reportedly responded by saying, "My mom and dad have told me a lot of things, too, but they're not always true."

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