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The American Eagle and Canassatego
Ben Franklin didn’t design it, and George Washington didn’t dream it up. The story behind the American Eagle belongs to a man named Canassatego.
See the American eagle holding thirteen arrows in its talons? That’s a tribute to an Indigenous Onondaga leader named Canassatego. He is the forgotten influencer who gave the early American colonies the blueprint for their entire nation.
To understand his impact, you have to look at what the thirteen colonies were going through back in the 1740s. Long before the Revolutionary War even started, the British colonies were an absolute mess. They were…
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