Red Earth, White Lies
by Vine Deloria Jr
We’re so used to American history from an East Coast perspective, a kind of white movement West, but if you look at a Spanish map from 1776, you see that everything west of the Mississippi is Spanish. And the main people who get left out are the Indians. There is a rich Indian history there, says Deloria, but it is relentlessly ignored. Where are the bloody Indians?
