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Article: OPINION: A Native American universe opens on Washington, D.C., mall.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- September 21, 2004
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Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 21--There was a pause - an opening - in the fabric of the natural world this week as the Native nations of the Western Hemisphere took their proper place at the center of American consciousness. The prayers and good wishes of hundreds of Native nations offered sincere thanks that, for once, something positive and good has happened.
The call to consciousness came from the National Mall in Washington, D.C. - that old Piscataway country of marshes and meadows, which is now home and the seat of government to the richest and most powerful country on Earth. Thousands of Indian ...