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I don't think it's necessary to construe the joining of colonial and Amer. Indian hands, and the joining of the axe and the peace pipe as rewriting the gruesome American history of genocide.
The same goes for the notion that putting a buffalo on our currency somehow denies the fact that we slaughtered the buffalo to near extinction so as to remove the Amer. Indians primary source of food and assist in our genocide.
I mean symbols of peace, good will, respect for the native flora and fauna can be used as attempts to heal old wounds or even a tacit admission that, while we erred in the past, we are resolved not to err in those ways again.
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