Red, white and blue: A strategy for survival as Native Americans navigate 250 years of history

Red, white and blue: A strategy for survival as Native Americans navigate 250 years of history

It's a complex history of displacement and forced assimilation as well as one of self-determination and, strangely enough, patriotism.

America at 250: The Native American perspective - ABC listen

As our America at 250 series continues, we examine an important strand of their national story that often gets overlooked and even erased. The history of Native Americans, who occupied the continent thousands of years before The Mayflower or Christopher Columbus set sail for the Americas, is often forgotten.  As the anniversary of independence approaches, debate is intensifying over whose stories are being told,  and whose are being left out, as…