To Form a More Perfect Union

Governance in Colonial America was hierarchal and rich in possessions, whereas the Indigenous Native Americans were relatively poorer in possessions, but richer in relations, time and ease. The Indigenous Indians considered themselves part of the animate and inanimate, and the rational and irrational, compared to a colonial view that humans were dominate life-forms in a world subject to human control. The Indigenous world view included knowns and unknowns within cultural practices that were the social glue maintaining humility amidst human frailties and the unanticipated. De-emphasizing the isolation of rational from the irrational is needed to restore the strained modern environments.