ABSTRACT
Social scientists have observed with mild wonder that among American Indians, ranging the Great Plains before the coming of the white man, there was the same efflorescence of associations, that Blackfoot and Omaha Indians were also joiners. Second generation—American-born of foreign-born parents—they set part of the tone of the American eagerness for their children to go onward. “Americans are so conservative,” say Europeans. They lack the revolutionary spirit. Intolerant of foreign language, foreign ways, vigorously determined on being themselves, they are, in attitude if not in fact, second-generation Americans. The children who are adopted, the children who have feared they were adopted, all serve to exaggerate for each American child his dependence on his father and mother, of whom there is only one edition in the whole world.
