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to why something appears in the curriculum when it does, and work outof that—work out of what lies behind the curriculum. Whether we changeexternals in the subjects taught depends on individual cultures and schoolsworking out of insight.One star these nights is the comet. Let the children know its exactposition and its physical constitution, but let them also see it with awe asan unexpected event in the sky coming from little-known universal regions.Anthroposophy and Waldorf education also, in their way, come from littleknownuniversal regions. May both of them shine on American culture insuch a manner that the universal is understood and the American folk spiritunderstands itself.BibliographyBarreiro, Jose, ed. Indian Roots of American Democracy. Ithaca, NY:Akwekon Press of Cornell University, 1992.Gifford and Cook, eds. How Can One Sell the Air? Chief Seattle’s Vision.Summertown, TN: The Book Publishing Company, 1992.Johansen, Bruce. Forgotten Founders: How the American Indian Helped ShapeDemocracy. Cambridge: Harvard Common Press, 1982.Lefkowitz, Mary. Not out of Africa. New York: Basic Books, Harper Collins,1996.Morey, Sylvester. “American Indians and Our Way of Life,” an addressgiven at the Waldorf School, Adelphi University, January 18, 1961.Garden City, NY: Myrin Institute.–––––, ed. Can the Red Man Help the White Man? A Denver Conference withthe Indian Elders. New York: Myrin Institute Books, 1970.Press, Frank. Preface to Science and Creationism A View from the NationalAcademy of Sciences. Washington, D.C.: Committee on Science andCreationism, National Academy of Sciences Press, Washington,DC, 1984.Schlesinger, Arthur. The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a MulticulturalSociety. New York: Norton, 1992.Spence, Lewis. The Myths of the North American Indians. New York: Dover,1989.278