Minnesota Dem Peggy Flanagan boasts she could be first Native American woman senator — years after Elizabeth Warren’s claim

Fresh off her breakthrough Senate primary win, Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan's fundraising operation crowed that she can make history as the first female Native American to serve in the upper chamber.

Minnesota Democrats on Tuesday picked Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan as their Senate nominee, backing a candidate who could be the first Native American woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate.  Flanagan, a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, is not the only Native woman who could make history this year: In New Mexico,…