There used to be a time in occupied America when only whites were allowed to write, read, and publish books. In fact, when Europeans started occupying the continent in 1492, one of the first things they did was burn the thousands of existing books Indigenous people had written in an attempt to destroy peoples' existing relationship with books and their contained knowledges.
Read MoreIn 1902, a Scottish European, named Ernest Thompson Seton migrated to America and eventually settled in Connecticut. Living on 100 acres of “pristine” stolen Native land, it was here Seton, and his hardy band of juvenile Indian phonies were learning how to track animals, identify animal and plant species, communicate using “Indian sign language,” make shelter and tie ropes into complicated knots.
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