[Extended] Joy Harjo with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Trail of Tears
When i think back to growing up in oklahoma and learning about, you know, the five civilized tribes. I was wondering, im ou having grown up. And it shocks me that it wasn't questioned, something called the trail of tears. Just ask cotton mather, you know, in the puritans. It's part of our reality of being who we are. But in this story, this american story, is that all this was done so that, you know, to fulfil a dream given by people who came hereWho were deemed 'savages' for standing in the way of progress.
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