And the generation after that.

The pattern has not yet concluded.

What Parker left behind was not a transformed America — he did not have the power to produce that, and no individual does.

What he left behind was a record: documented proof that the barriers erected against Native Americans were not about Native people’s capacities but about the system’s choices.

Ha-sa-no-an-da had been there.

He had done the work.

The system’s limitations were the system’s, not his.