I'm Rebecca Nagel.

Gohin, Taoadon, to like I et, Lee, Leigh, of Cherokee Nation. Are you guys big Chiefs fans? Hell yeah. Yes. This past year, I've been out traveling the country. Chiefs on three. One, two, three. Chiefs on three. To try to understand something about America. I feel like that's going to happen a lot. About where Native people fit in.

Do you know who Native Americans are?

Yes, they're the people, they're the first people to live here.

Do Native Americans still exist?

Maybe.

I don't really think so.

And the history we've pushed aside.

Do you think most people who come to this spot, do you think that they come here to honor the atrocity that happened here?

No, they're doing winter sports.

Going all the way back to how the United States began.

We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.

The Declaration, which is full of these beautifully rendered sentences and paragraphs about

Enlightenment ideals, does also have this darker history to it.

The merciless Indian savages, whose no rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction.

If we don't understand the full context in which our nation was founded,

we won't understand the full context in which our nation now finds itself.

So, it's been 250 years since 1776.

How's this democracy of ours going?

I need a merge.

I'm going to...

My wife called me. Somebody got shot.

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