Re: off topic: native cultures, etc.

[George Scithers owlswick@xxxxxxxx]

Actually, I'm an indirect descendant of a woman kidnapped by Indians too.
She had rather a better time of it that the woman you mentioned, though.

George Scithers of owlswickpress@xxxxxxxx
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Subject: off topic: native cultures, etc.


> Says Scithers to Knouse, a propos of trashing the Noble Red Person:
>
> >Tongue lashing, hell! Scalping's too good for the likes of ye <
>
> This forces me to confess ancestral guilt: I am a direct descendant of
Hannah
> Dustin, who when kidnapped by a band of Indians, who killed her newborn
and
> made off with her, managed to kill her captors one night and made her way
> back home, documenting her adventure with the scalps of her kidnappers.
>
> The enormity of the guilt, however, is roughly proportionate to my own
Indian
> blood, which according to one contested family legend is 1/128.
(Different
> tribe, BTW.)
>
> Bruce Felknor
>