To recreate a whole and sacred America, it is important to piece together the forgotten fragments of history that keep the country divided. Just as a traditional Native American potter begins a new pot with shards of old pots—to honor the ancestors and bring the energies of the past into the present—Original Politics reassembles the nation as a whole out of the seemingly disparate shards of our origins.

The most significant forgotten piece is the profound effect Native America had on our founders’ values when establishing this nation. Original Politics convincingly demonstrates how the best aspects of the founding vision of America were inspired or directly appropriated from living Native American cultures—concepts such as natural rights, liberty, and egalitarian justice. Native Americans invigorated what Parry sees as the sacred purpose of the nation: to bring all the world’s peoples together on one soil in a harmonious cultural mosaic of unity and diversity.