A Calgary-based blogger is making headlines and trending on social media after she shouted an objection to Donald Trump's use of the word Pocahontas to describe a United States senator. "I think she's as Native American as I am, OK, that I will tell you," he said. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called Senator Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas several times in his North Dakota speech, which some are saying is highly offensive. Watch A Native American Reporter Explain Why Trump's Mocking Use Of "Pocahontas" Is "Extremely Offensive" https://t.co/bCs5tzDatf — @MuskwaMediaPocahontas was a Native American woman who in the 17th century lived in what is now Virginia when English colonists had arrived in the New World. Calgary blogger Nicole Robertson shouted an objection when Trump referred to a U.S. senator as Pocahontas at a media scrum in North Dakota on Thursday.

Source: CBC News May 27, 2016 10:42 UTC