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Article: EDITORIAL: American Indians Can Teach Humanity Lessons to John Locke Followers.
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- June 25, 2003
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Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 25--What do Indians have to say about the Bush Administration's tax cut policy? Plenty, we think, and pretty important stuff too. Native peoples have had an on-going beef with the guiding spirit of American economics for about 300 years now. It's not just an academic debate, either. For most of the time, it was a struggle for survival. Now, possibly, it will be a contest for the soul of the continent.
The great adversary of the Indians for these three centuries has been John Locke, the English economist and political philosopher who shaped modern capitalism, ...