In the modern world we are bombarded by others' teachings. Being
constantly surrounded by the ideas of computers, televisions and books we are
influenced, we are shaped. We accept what we've been told and avoid discovering
the truth because we know no better, and it's safer. Too often "We fail to step
outside of that safe sanctuary defined by what other's wish us to know."1 If the
general population of the United States of America were asked what they knew of
the Indians, common replies would be of romantic visions of the once free roaming,
free spirited peoples of the nine-teenth century, the melodrama of the conflicts
between the pioneers and the Indians, the scalpings, painted bodies decorated with
feathers, reservations, and other familiarities of their past. Many would speak of the
Indians as if their legacy was simply a chapter in the history books. Therefore when
"...they occasionally hear a word or two about the descendants of Sitting Bull and
Pocahontas......
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