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Who Really Built America | Milwaukee News
As America celebrates its 250th birthday, a powerful reckoning is underway: who really built this nation? Beyond the powdered wigs, Native American tribes like the Mohican and Oneida were indispensable allies in the Revolutionary War—serving as scouts, messengers, and suppliers. Their governance, especially the Haudenosaunee Confederacy’s Great Law of Peace, inspired foundational U.S. concepts like checks and balances and free speech. Yet their contributions were followed by broken promises and forced displacement—a pattern of betrayal echoing through Native history. The episode also…
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