Kathleen Duvall

250 years is kind of a blip in Native North American history.

To me, the 250th anniversary is a reminder that we live in a country that was founded on an ideal.

Some people say it's the ideal that all men were created equal.

I think more fundamentally than that and more agreed upon at the time, 250 years ago, was the idea that the people can rule themselves.

Democracy assumes disagreement.

It's not a consensus democracy.

And so it is not a surprise at all that people today have very strong and divergent opinions about our country's founding because that's just always been true.