One of us spent a considerable amount of time studying American Indian literature and ethnography, and via that, culture, in graduate school. And it wasn't Dave or Bluesman.

Thanks heavens for a breath of logic. I have said all along I know nothing of the case or the laws involved. I do not pretend to have the slightest inclination what the American Indian is going though. My own ethnography is Polish and Cossack - Who used to put each other down and have suffered at the hands of every man and his dog! Yet, even though well versed and entitled to I would not dream of inflicting my views on others. Yet some people would take us back to the Victorian times when it was fasinable to patronise the 'Noble Savege'.

Thanks, SRS, for reminding everyone that NO-ONE here knows exactly what was involved. I just wish, for one minute, that others could understand that!

Cheers

DtG