<em>Oral history is extremely important. Oral history is the way stories were passed doe before writing was invented. Oral history also played a major role during periods of distress. In Ancient Greece, during the Ancient Greek dark ages, oral history was the only way people could remember their past.</em>
The burning of the American flag was determined a form of symbolic speech, protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution in the Bill of Rights.
Settlers encouraged assimilation because they didnt want to just force them off of their land they wanted to have alternate ideas and it didnt really work although some did assimilate.
