The Cherokee Freedmen issue has been a topic of discussion over the past couple of weeks and with it Indian Country Today Media Network presents the latest as the New York Times of...
We read and absorb as truth the accounts of idealistic observers like Thomas More, Amerigo Vespucci, Las Casas, Rousseau, and others who bolster our view of our ancestors. We paint our people as innocents, pristine in relationship with all of nature, and pure in social structures and systems....