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*Charlotte, Angelica’s big business mama, occasionally alludes to the importance of female empowerment:

* Throughout the series, it is often highlighted that Phil & Lil, although identical twins, are treated differently because of their gender.

*Charles/”Chaz” proudly takes on the nurturing role of single dad and challenges traditional masculinity. 

Modern history books like to bang on about “cultural misunderstandings”, but if you look at contemporary records, it’s clear that there was no misunderstanding - the colonists totally understood that they were being extended a loan, and simply didn’t want to pay it back.

The myth that Native Americans liked to swindle people by giving them gifts and later claiming that the gift had actually been a loan - hence, “Indian giver” - thus developed in order to retroactively justify the colonists stiffing the locals when those loans came due.