 Weenaatainini, David Weeden - Mashpee Wampanoag
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--President John F. Kennedy 1961--Introduction to The American Heritage Book of Indians.
"For a subject
worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television. American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all . . . When we forget great contributors to our American history--when we neglect the heroic past of the American Indian--we thereby weaken our own heritage . . . America has much to learn about the heritage of our American Indians. Only through this study can we as a nation do what must be done if our treatment of the American Indian is not to be marked down for all time as a national disgrace."
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