but reservations were not fenced and most of them are many square miles in size

Who needs wire when you've got a few hundred miles of desert with no food or water...?

They invented slums. They invented child labor.

Eh? "Slum" is an invented concept to describe what was considered sub-standard housing when general housing standards improved. If we say that the Brits invented it, then we credit the British with having raised housing standards sufficiently that what everyone previously thought was an OK working-class house was now considered sub-standard.

As for child labour, better talk to the Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons. Children *not* working is a very modern idea.

And I'm not sure how the metric system (invented by the French, incidentally - nice to see this is a pure work of fiction) and industrialised production methods qualify as "bad".

No, I wouldn't travel to the US to punch him on the nose. But I might travel to the US to shout at people who consider buying this, "Where did you leave your brain this morning, fuckwit?!"

Graham.