Acknowledgments
* I would like to thank my family for their support, my sisters, aunts, uncles, other family, and my wife Lia and her family. Of course one's greatest influence is always one's parents, Alton Sr. and Concepcion Carroll. In loving memory to them both.
* A work like this is obviously influenced by previous writings, especially James Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me and Linda Tuwahi-Smith's (Maori) Decolonizing Methodologies. One can also find plentiful evidence of the influence of Vine Deloria (Lakota), Jack Forbes (Powhattan), Noam Chomsky, and Howard Zinn. Anyone who enjoys these authors will enjoy this work, and vice versa.
* I should also thank the historians who trained me, Peter Iverson and Arturo Rosales at Arizona State University and Donna Akers (Choctaw) and Charles Cutter at Purdue University. Finally, I thank the staff and faculty at Northern Virginia Community College and the Fulbright Program.