Whose America is it?

By Jim Fleming

To the Best of Our Knowledge radio

August 18, 2013

king_inconvenient cover Whose America is it? Writer Thomas King has strong feelings about that. He says Native Americans have been many things to white people. Slaves, stereotypes, savages. And always inconvenient.

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