How Are Jefferson and a Native American Alike?

     Question: Besides being pictured on nickels, what do Thomas Jefferson and this unknown Native American have in common?
    Answer: They each believed that all men are created equal with the right to choose their own leaders. And here’s the kicker: Jefferson, who incorporated these beliefs into our Declaration of Independence, adopted them from Native American culture, according to historian Tom Embert Phillips.
     Phillips, a Chickasaw artist and student of American Indians, writ...