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“You know, there’s this marvelous stereotype out there that when the white people came, the world here was perfect, that people lived in a paradise in which they were the most elegant, the most moral, the most elevated of all humanity. That’s not true. We were human beings, and we lived in our own societies, and we did things that all human beings do, and some of it was elevated and marvelous and admirable, and some of it was pretty horrible.”
JoAllyn Archambault
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North and South Dakota
Director of the American Indian Program at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC