re: Calls for CNN to fire Rick Santorum over Native American comments

Rick Santorum doesn’t know very much about Native Americans. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians have about as much in common with Crow Indians as I do with the Chinese. There’s no standard Native American Culture that is universal across the nation.

Andrew Jackson would disagree about the cultural influences from what is now the EBCI.

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there was nothing here

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dirt mounds and teepees


some culture

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there isn't much Native American culture in American culture"

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In terms of current culture, he's not wrong.

However, colonial period and early nation? There's some there.

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but candidly there isn't much Native American culture in American culture"

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What little there was can’t be kept alive for the most part because if you do, you run the risk of being cancelled because offense found somewhere in it as well. See the Redskins, et al.

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we have Native Americans but candidly there isn't much Native American culture in American culture"

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For what it’s worth, the peace pipe is still used today for social bonding.