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“The Care and Labour of providing for Artificial and Fashionable Wants, the sight of so many rich wallowing in Superfluous plenty, whereby so many are kept poor and distressed for Want. . . all contrive to disgust the Indians with what we call civil Society.” — Benjamin Franklin. Join Colonial Williamsburg American Indian Interpreter, Talon Silverhorn, as he discusses Benjamin Franklin's essay "Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America," published in Williamsburg in 1782, and the effects it had on the Native Nations and Europeans in the 18th century. Please join this live and archived conversation HERE.

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