As someone who works at a university, I would bet that the university benefitted more from this than she did. I would think that there were a limited number of qualified candidates and perhaps no Native Americans applied. We don't usually get Native America applicants where I work (which might be a recruiting problem). Regardless, given all the horrible things that politicians have done over the years, this ranks as pretty minor. It's the only thing they could find to personally smear her, so they have milked it as much as possible.