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INDIANS, AMERICAN INDIANS, NATIVE AMERICANS, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, ABORIGIONAL AMERICANS, 1^ST NATIONS. What Ever You Choose to Call Them No People has So Many Others Wanting to be One of Them
Europeans and those of European dissent have often thought that somewhere in the world must dwell a noble race, remnants of that golden age before man became corrupted by civilization. As reports of Indians filtered back to Europe, a distinguished French philosopher of the late 16^th Century, Michelle de Montaigne concluded that the Noble Savage has at last been found, in the American Indian. "Words that import a lie, falsehood, treason, covetousness, envy, detraction, were not heard among them." Michelle de Montaigne 
No Indigenous People have ever captured the imagination of other people, all over the world, as the American Indian. A great many misconceptions, half truths, out and out lies, and every once in a very great while, a few tremendously insightful truths have been put forward about the American Indian. Like the Huns, Mongals, Vikings, Cossacks and Zulu, the American Indian has been honored and praised and at the same time feared and vilified. In all of history, I know of none, other than the American Indian, that most people, everywhere, want to be.
"We must be united. We must smoke the same pipe. We must fight each other's battles. And more than that, We must love the Great Spirit." Tecumseh - His appeal to other tribes to join his confederacy-

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