Jews and Native Americans

Jews and American Indians have today, and have long had, much in common, including modern concerns regarding religious rights, assimilation, and the challenge of maintaining our own national languages and cultures while being a part of American society, and this affinity isn't new. Jews came into close contact with Indians across a wide swath of American history, from the old southeast among the Cherokee, Creek and others in the colonial era 1700's, to the Midwest and on to the Pacific coas...