Yet that is what militant multiculturalists require of Glazer and others who can point to chapter and verse, to specific changes, to markers along the road, to concrete struggles by political activists aimed precisely at achieving greater inclusion. Oddly enough, in the interest of denying the validity of inclusion, they wind up diminishing the accomplishments of abolitionists, suffragists, and many others. Truth takes a beating in another arena. Glazer points to material in a proposed New York State syllabus for history standards that claim the American Founding Fathers were directly influenced by the Iroquois and Hodenosaunee federations. There is not a shred of evidence to back up this claim.
Historic truth is a minor matter.
As Glazer presents the alternatives, we seem to have two options. Or go along with the Iroquois and Hodenosaunee stories despite the fact that there is no evidence to back it up. Is there anything so bad about this second story, Glazer muses. But, surely, there is another option. Present the historic evidence as we know it about the sources drawn upon by the Framers.