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Acknowledgments There are many who contributed to this work in innumerable ways—so many, in fact, that I will surely forget someone, and for that I apologize. I thank series editors Agnes Curry and Anne Waters for their comments and encouragement. I owe much to Piqua Sept Shawnee tribal elders Jim Perry (who recently passed), Don Rankin, and Rick Wagar. As well, I have benefited from counsels with clan and tribal members Bryan Dabe, Duane Everhart (even though he’s a Turtle), and Bob and Helen Griffin. Kent State University colleagues John Harkness, Leslie Heaphy, Bradley Keefer, and Mel May reviewed various iterations of the manuscript—and we’re still friends! Roger Davis chased down the Squier and Davis map of the Newark Works—what would we do without librarians? Sharon Schreffler helped in every way in preparing the manuscript—what would we do without faculty secretaries? Students Steven Gandee, Kris Kurian, Michael Lemon, and Carli Waller helped crystallize many thoughts developed herein while enrolled in a section of American Indian Philosophy at Kent State Stark Campus. Kris Kurian made some critical contributions to the text, and she helped format the bibliography as well. (And all I had to do in return was to haul her bookcase in my truck!) This work could not have been completed without a Faculty Professional Improvement Leave from Kent State University and funding for an undergraduate research assistant from the Kent State Stark Campus. Perhaps the most valued and valuable input and influence came from Michael Byron, Agnes Curry, Lee Hester, Lorraine Mayer, and Kyle Whyte, who participated in a panel discussion of the manuscript—which aptly bore the working title “The Burden”—at the 2009 American Philosophical Association Central Division meetings in Chicago; however, we very much missed Scott Pratt and Sandra Tomsons. I also owe thanks to the unnamed copy editors at SUNY Press (who hate the words “while” and “upon,” by the way) who turned my clunky prose into something even more than presentable. I would like to thank Beverly Slavin for her kind permission to reprint “Two Plus Two or Why Indians Flunk.” Through Indian Eyes: The Native xv xvi Acknowledgments Experience in Books for Children. Eds. Beverly Slapin and Doris Seale. Berkeley : Oyate Publishers, 2006. Finally, I owe many thanks and much love to my ever supportive companions : Abby Wallace, my eastern gray squirrel person; Max, our Siamese cat person (who is trying to help me type at this very moment—but he has no thumbs); and especially my 25 year love, Linda Lee—who just happens to be my human person. ...

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