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2018 Will Rogers Gold Medallion Award Winner: First Place Nonfiction! 2018 True West Magazine Best of the West Winner: Best Author and Best Nonfiction Book of the Year! University of Nebraska Great Plains Book of the Month: December 2018!American Trinity is for everyone who loves the American West and wants to learn more about the good, the bad, and the ugly. It is a sprawling story with a scholarly approach in method but remains accessible in manner. In this innovative examination, Dr. Larry Len Peterson explores the origins, development, and consequences of hatred and racism from the time modern humans left Africa 100,000 years ago to the forced placement of Indian children on offreservation schools far from home in the late 1800s. Along the way, dozens of notable individuals and cultures are profiled. Many historical events turned on the lives of legendary Americans like the "Father of the West" Thomas Jefferson, and the "Son of the West" George Armstrong Custer two strange companions who shared an unshakable sense of their own skills as their interpretation of truths motivated them in the winning of the West.Dr. Peterson reveals how antiIndian sentiments were always only obliquely about them. They were victims but not the cause. The Indian was a symbol, not a real person. The politics of hate and racism directed toward them was also experienced in prior centuries by Jews, enslaved Africans, and other Christians. Hatred and racism, when taken into the public domain, are singularly difficult to justify, which is why Europeans and Americans have always sought vindication from the highest sources of authority in their cultures. In the Middle Ages it was religion supplemented later by the philosophy of the Enlightenment. In nineteenthcentury Europe and America, religion and philosophy were joined by science and medicine to support Manifest Destiny, scientific racism, and social Darwinism all of which had profound consequences on Native Americans and the Spirit of the West.Presenting research in anthropology, archaeology, biology, history, law, medicine, religion, philosophy, and psychology, Dr. Peterson provides the latest observations that delineate why the Native American's life was destroyed. American Trinity is a stunning portrait, a view at once unique, panoramic, and intimate. It is a fascinating book that will make you think about the differences between belief and knowledge; about the selfskepticism of science and medicine; and about what aspects of the world we take on faith.
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