We don’t know & aren’t taught that our constitution is based on the principles found in the native american tribal councils where each nation was represented & heard before the council.

Many don’t know & weren’t taught how important a role women played in the government & policies of native american councils. Most tribes were matriarchies, even if the representative from the entire nation to the council was a male warrior.

We’re also not taught that the first settlements would not have made it through the severe winters if the native americans would not have helped the settlers & taught them about which plants to plant when & where.

Its a sad statement on American society when the most well known images of native americans are the one of the man with a tear running down his check due to the damage to the environment & of half-naked, war painted males with bows & arrows attacking colonial settlers. Nowadays, too, there is the image of the native american dealing cards at a casino on a reservation.

I suggest people go to a native american reservation near them to see the beautiful beadwork, pottery, silver smithing, etc. they do, attend a powwow to listen to the music & see the themed dances performed.

Its like anything else – if you’re ignorant of a whole culture’s history & background you have no appreciation of what you might have learned from them.

Richard M. Nixon

Served as

37th President of the United States

January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974

Died: April 22, 1994

I must have waited 20 years at least for an answer.

My opinion I don’t think they know.

Cherokee Trail of Tears

The Trail on Which They Wept

http://www.semorpc.org/ttmsfc.htm

Theodore Pease Russell, whose family had settled in Iron County in 1838, recalled,

“There were about 2,000 Indians in this division. All the others had gone by way of ******Farmington,******* but the roads

were so bad that this last division had to come this way along the Fredericktown Road and such a road at that time!”

St. Francois Counties, Missouri

Dressing Miwok Boys up like Plains Indians for Pow Wows.

An entire generation grew up dancing pow wow but not with their own dances, their own REAL regalia.

I have my own issues with sherman. For some reason when they were shooting smoke signals, he wouldn’t use the local rez boys to play rezboys even though they were just extras. his reason “they don’t know how to act” and “this isn’t a documentary”