“[Indigenous Peoples] introduced Europeans not only to tobacco, popcorn, and chocolate, but to team sports, and team thinking. The Indian democracies - the Iroquois and Choctaw federations, for example - were prototypes for the U.S. Constitution. And, in the electronic age, the native worldview, which still lives in the languages and social milieu of the reservations, will place the Indian at an immense advantage, returning him to his historical, ‘coureur de bois’ role as guide, scout, and interpreter of the environment. “
