Deval

Deval. FOB. Friend of Barack. African American. His administration in Massachusetts was solid. Not spectacular. Will anyone hear him? Will anyone care?

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Len’s Letter #19 Charles Mann’s “1491” — Reconstructing America’s Past

Mann argues that European North Americans and the Native American Haudenosaunee learned from each other. Americans were becoming a people who valued freedom and rejected obedience. He reminds us that European Americans began their rebellion dressed up like Indians to dump tea in Boston Harbor.

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