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Clip from "SEEDS OF FREEDOM: A Vision for America"
Dr. Betty Booth Donohue (Cherokee Nation) is an independent scholar who resides in Oklahoma. She is the author of Bradford's Indian Book: Being the True Roote & Rise of American Letters as Revealed by the Native Text Embedded in Of Plimoth Plantation. She has also published works on the Indigenous American Oral Tradition and on Nineteenth-Century Native Poetry. The focus of her work is the influence of Native American poetics on the formation of American literature.
Watch the full film here: bit.ly/SEEDSofFREEDOMFilm
An extraordinary exception to the human condition unfolded when the visionary leaders of two radically different cultures met and worked together to maintain an inter-cultural exchange that became the "First Great Synthesis” between Europeans and American Indians during the first fifty-four years at Plymouth Plantation. This melding gave birth to American democracy and to the American mind and spirit. The "Second Great Synthesis” occurred when aspects of The Great Law of the Iroquois were integrated into the United States Constitution in 1787. A third synthesis is possible as our cultures come together again to realize the great promise America made to the world in its freedom documents The Mayflower Compact, The Declaration of Independence and The U.S. Constitution: The True American Dream - Liberty, Justice, Equality and Abundance for all.
Learn more about The First Fifty Years Project: First50Years.us/about.
Clip from "SEEDS OF FREEDOM: A Vision for America"
Dr. Betty Booth Donohue (Cherokee Nation) is an independent scholar who resides in Oklahoma. She is the author of Bradford's Indian Book: Being the True Roote & Rise of American Letters as Revealed by the Native Text Embedded in Of Plimoth Plantation. She has also published works on the Indigenous American Oral Tradition and on Nineteenth-Century Native Poetry. The focus of her work is the influence of Native American poetics on the formation of American literature.
Watch the full film here: bit.ly/SEEDSofFREEDOMFilm
An extraordinary exception to the human condition unfolded when the visionary leaders of two radically different cultures met and worked together to maintain an inter-cultural exchange that became the "First Great Synthesis” between Europeans and American Indians during the first fifty-four years at Plymouth Plantation. This melding gave birth to American democracy and to the American mind and spirit. The "Second Great Synthesis” occurred when aspects of The Great Law of the Iroquois were integrated into the United States Constitution in 1787. A third synthesis is possible as our cultures come together again to realize the great promise America made to the world in its freedom documents The Mayflower Compact, The Declaration of Independence and The U.S. Constitution: The True American Dream - Liberty, Justice, Equality and Abundance for all.
Learn more about The First Fifty Years Project: First50Years.us/about.
