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CNN contributor and former U.S. senator Rick Santorum spoke at an event last month, telling his audience: There isn t much Native American culture in American culture. File photo by Gage Skidmore / Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Last month, at an event hosted by the Young America’s Foundation, a non-profit for conservative youth, CNN contributor and former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum was riffing on the origins of the United States when a thought appeared to cross his mind.
“We came here and created a blank slate. We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here,” speechified Santorum, when the idea intruded upon his brain. “I mean, yes we have Native Americans, but candidly, there isn t much Native American culture in American culture. It was born of the people who came here pursuing religious liberty to practise their faith, to live as they ought to live and have the freedom to do so.”
Ross McCollin: Our nation owes much to Native American culture
The reason so little of Indigenous culture survives is because the white man wiped it out.
(Philip J. Pantano/Seneca-Iroquois National Museum via AP)
This 2019 photo provided by Seneca-Iroquois National Museum in New York shows a long-missing peace pipe tomahawk President George Washington gave to Seneca Indian leader Cornplanter in the late 18th century that has been returned to the tribe in western New York. An anonymous collector returned the artifact to the museum and officials there decided to give it back to the Senecas.
By Ross McCollin | Special to The Tribune
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