Claymore - Your comments about Indian brutality are all too true! I've read those accounts too. There were hideous things done by Indians to Whites, Whites to Indians, Whites to Whites, and Indians to Indians. Reading the historical record of Pontiac's war against the English is very illuminating. The brutality, treachery, and torture practiced on many occasions by Pontiac's warriors and their allies was almost beyond imagination...and it led, of course, to bitter retaliation when the tables were turned. I may like a lot of things about traditional Indian culture, but I am not blind to its dark side, be assured. Every nation of people has a dark side.

Plenty of sensible comments from people on this thread, I must say...and even a gratuitious mention of William Shatner. Jolly good!

- LH