For our user agree- ment, click here . I'm very proud of some of it but some of it makes me cringe. The concept or Manifest Destiny for one, by which white Europeans felt authorized to come to this country and take it from its previous inhabitants, and to cheat and murder them if that's what it took. Then there was the enslavement of our African brothers and sisters. And there's a lot more.
T feel a responsibility to do so.
I can't change it or deny it, but I certainly hope that we all live it down some day. All I can say for my ancestors is that, hopefully, they didn't know any better. I think the men of the Makah tribe have the same duty, to reject parts of their cultural heritage. Their ancestors lived a rich, daring and beautiful way of life, from all accounts. But the human race has moved past it.