Debating Democracy: Native American Legacy of Freedom

American founding fathers would readily acknowledge our debt to the Iroquois Confederacy for many democratic ideas and governing principles contained in our constitution. For some Americans, however, this notion represents a perverse-even wicked-attack on our national identity and denial of our European racial, cultural, and intellectual heritage. For years academic gatekeepers used their power to suppress publication of works supporting the "influence theory." When this effort failed, near...