Gavin Newsom

Why don't I share with you what I just discovered, what we just discovered?

It's very much a we.

Over the course of the last 10 years, and we've got two dozen scholars and writers, and we're taking what they've learned, not what their political...

not with their particular philosophy, not political, but their philosophy, what the historians call historiography.

We don't have to buy into that.

And so you can be strengthened like the spokes on a wheel that give the great dynamic strength to a wheel because you've got lots of different perspectives.

It isn't just one.

You're not seeing it through one lens.

You're able to, and this is where story, narrative, which was understandably out of fashion today,

by the middle of the 20th century is actually still the only way to tell a story.

Honey, how was your day?

Does not begin, I back slowly down the driveway, avoiding the garbage can at the curb, unless somebody T-bones you and that's exactly the way you do it.

What you do is you edit human experience and to do that,

you're gonna have to know what that was.

And so we studied scholars who knew the Native American countries, knew the difference between the Delaware and the Shawnee who were actually partners, or the Creek, the Muskogee Creeks, or the Cheyenne, or whatever the, I mean, the Cherokee,

or the Anishinaabe, or the Haudenosaunee, the Cayuga, Seneca, Onondaga, Tuscarora, Oneida, and Mohawk that made up the Iroquois Confederacy, this democracy in a way, this union, this Confederacy that Franklin, 20 years before the revolution, said,

Whoa, this is pretty good.

We should try it ourselves.

And everybody said, really good idea.

And every colony said, nope, we don't want to give up one ounce of authority to anything bigger than ourselves.