While tribal leaders aren’t to blame for these perceptions, I also wonder if there’s more they could do to foster positive interpretations.

No you don’t seem arrogant, this is arrogance. So because our culture was never given due diligence in understanding and acceptance, that’s somehow our fault? Not only that, the burden to rectify the situation is on us? The victims?

Like I said before, you are not entitled to OUR history. The argument ends right there. But me stating a simple benign fact gets labeled as the opposite. What does that say about yourself?

I would never go to somewhere in Europe with the same mindset I have in America, because that is not my home and they do not have to show me and share anything with me that they don’t want to.

I have been surprised to see so many “road blocks” surrounding the discussion, or participation in ancient American history. Historians are story tellers, and sometimes it feels like no one is telling the stories of ancient Americans, because people who are not Native American have “no right” to tell them.

Native American history predates “American History”. They go hand in hand towards the later years, but they are not the same. We are protective over our stories because of often they are told wrong. Case and point: the topic at hand.