Sublime

Captain Richard Henry Pratt’s guiding principle for Indian education, as summed up at the nineteenth annual National Conference of Charities and Correction held in Denver, Colorado, in 1892: “Kill the Indian in him and save the man.” This principle resulted in a policy now widely recognized as the embodiment of cultural genocide.

Call the first narrative Free America. In the past half century it’s been the most politically powerful of the four. Free America draws on libertarian ideas, which it installs in the high-powered engine of consumer capitalism. The freedom it champions is very different from Tocqueville’s art of self-government. It’s personal freedom, without other

Kesler and his people remained

came to this land with their own beliefs and ways of being. These newcomers didn’t believe in the balance of the masculine and feminine. Instead, they believed in the superiority of the masculine. Having lost their balanced view of life, they also didn’t believe in living in harmonious balance with nature. Instead, they believed in taking dominion

Un hombre los siguió. Tampoco volvió a ser visto en Leadville. Era el extraño nuevo amigo de los tarahumaras, Shaggy, quien pronto sería conocido como Caballo Blanco, el vagabundo solitario de las Sierras Altas.

Lahontan

practice of sovereignty carries with it a kind of dignity—a way of relating to the self, to others, to the past, and to the future that is dimensionally distinct.

Bay Area Indians enjoyed an outstandingly diverse diet based on seasonal community rotation. Nomadic in the sense of not having permanent constructed dwellings, the Ohlone moved in response to abundance rather than scarcity, and individual communities maintained small, consistent territories. Natural cycles of ripening and spawning dictated short p