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In the essay, , Joel W. Martin addresses the advantages to re-thinking and establishing our ideas about the history of Indians. In Martin’ opinion, in light of our postcolonial discoveries and altered ways of viewing our historical involvement with the Indians ....

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.... tells the reader is how diplomatic these relations were. In addition, I found it astonishing that both, the Indian and the white groups were so open to innovating their own ideas, practices, and cultures as a whole. Martin discusses the uniquely cordial relationship between Creek Indian and white man as he writes, “…southeastern Indians, Africans, and Europeans learned to communicate across linguistic and cultural barriers, formed alliances, traded goods, exchanged ideas, constructed images of each other, and altered social and symbolic boundaries to accommodate that which was desirable or to restrict that which was not. Diverse peoples b ....