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part two Rebuilding Imagination Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. (I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.) Imagination is more important than knowledge. Information is not knowledge and yet knowledge is still limited, for knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. Yes, logic may get you from A to B, But Imagination encircles the world. Imagination is everything. Albert Einstein Rebuilding a nation requires considerable imagination on the part of the people involved. Here the relentless pursuit of imagination saved the future of American Indians. From imagination springs fresh ideas to difficult questions and challenging situations, and the indigenous people within the United States faced impossible odds as they witnessed their Old World approach its end. They took stock of their resources. One may possess or borrow the right tools, even more than those needed, but an idea and a plan come from visionary thinking within, not from thoughts of the outside. Inside of the communities and inside of the minds of leaders, native people applied themselves to reinvent themselves, alter their cultures , and apply a new logic born of Indian thinking and mainstream values. This is how they would rebuild their nations by adjusting again and again. Indeed, they proved that imagination is everything. ...

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