Reigning on the parade

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Saturday July 05, 2008 · 3:32 AM PDT

2008/07/05 · 03:32

The British, as it were, attempted to rein in the parade of westward colonial expansion in America, much to colonists' displeasure; and compounding the pressures leading to the Revolution.

Historian, Wilcomb E. Washburn, wrote extensively on Indian Country issues, including land allotments, cultural repression, and colonial settlement into Indian Country, restricted under English Rule, as a causative factor in colonial rebellion against Britain. He gave a presentation, while Director of American Studies at the Smithsonian Institute, on the less celebrated origins of July 4th festivities. The content of this piece is little more than a synopsis, with some editorializing from me, of Washburn's extensive presentation "Indians and the American Revolution," which should really be read in its unadulterated entirety.

The role of the American Indian during the American Revolution was a shadowy and tragic one...because the Indian was present also in the subconscious mind of the colonists as a central ingredient in the conflict with the Mother Country.

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Sunday June 29, 2008 · 3:53 AM PDT

2008/06/29 · 03:53

I once was blessed to see a double rainbow at the beach. One arced across the horizon, while another hovered higher up. It appeared, in my fuzzy interpretation that day, to benevolently guard the one closest to earth.

I sat tonight thinking not about the many complexities of the current state of politics, but about how the world has changed in my lifetime; and my extended family. My father-in-law, once a man possessed of unyielding religious beliefs that shaped and confirmed his personal intolerance, has become grandfather to a rainbow of children; his love for his own broadening his mind and heart in ways that nothing else did.

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