Diversity and Value

Steve Russell
8 min readSep 8, 2019
One Artist’s View of Diversity from Pixabay

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

Indians know diversity, and knew it before Columbus got lost. My people, woodland hunters and farmers, traded with coastal tribes in one direction and in the other direction copper ornaments smelted in Cherokee country turned up in Southwestern pueblos, where they grew the Three Sisters crops on dry land farms and built with stucco. When…

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Steve Russell

Enrolled Cherokee, 9th grade dropout, retired judge, associate professor emeritus, and (so far) cancer survivor. Memoir: Lighting the Fire (Miniver Press 2020)