Playing Cowboys and Indians as children may be considered innocent play and fun to some, but for many Americans, their perspective of this child's play symbolizes a painful part of their heritage, their history--our American history.
Many believe that more Native Americans were killed in America's Westward Expansion period than those who were killed during Germany's Holocaust.
Is conformity ever justified?
What is civilization?
In our grand narrative of American History, there are many stories that have been suppressed, hidden, verboten, or erased completely. In our efforts to understand different cultures, different perspectives, we need to embrace the painful truths of our own American history,
including America's Holocausts...
including America's Holocausts...
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