Native Pragmatism: Rethinking the Roots of American PhilosophyPragmatism is America's most distinctive philosophy. Generally it has been understood as a development of European thought in response to the American wilderness. A closer examination, however, reveals that the roots and central commitments of pragmatism are indigenous to North America. Native Pragmatism recovers this history and thus provides the means to re conceive the scope and potential of American philosophy. Pragmatism has been at best only