Who am I? Everyone asks this at some point in their lives. Young and old need to know what they stand for and how they fit into the world. But what happens to your answer to that “who-am-I question” if fate intervenes and you begin to question your own identity? If you are born and raised in one culture, one specific way of life, but circumstances force you into a different, contrasting culture, what becomes of your sense of who you are? Going one step further, what transpires if that contrasting culture rejects your former way of life or is downright antagonistic. What then? This is just the predicament that Joseph Jackson, Daniel Boone, and the salt-gatherers found themselves. For Jackson, his conflicted situation became a way of life. Torn between two cultures, two ways of being in the world, some would say between a civilized life and a savage life. Even more, the other group saw Joseph’s “people” as actual enemies. Not surprisingly, Jackson felt torn, bewildered, and lost like a man waking from a dream that seemed oh so real. But, Joseph’s life during and after the American Revolution was no dream. What identity would he choose? And choose he must or remain stuck between two worlds. That question of identity is the crux of Daniel Boone and Me: Washin’ Out the White. Did he “wash out the white?” Did he ever decide an answer to that all-important question, Who Am I? Jackson’s was not an easy choice. The two groups, Native American and white European, were in open conflict with each other. Each thought theirs was the “correct” way of life. Cultural (and physical) wars have continued into the twenty-first century. Houthis battle western supporters of Israel, Hamas wages war against Israelis, Sunni Muslims fight against Shia Muslims, Hutus war against Tutsis. The list of cultural wars goes on and on, nearly endlessly. Such modern physical battles and cultural disagreements are in some ways, merely more sophisticated versions of the dislike, the hatred both felt and demonstrated between the native Americans and the white Europeans. And Joseph Jackson was himself, “caught out,” forced to make his own peace between the Indian world and the white world. The human drama continues.