In fj.life.in-japan John Yamamoto-Wilson <john@rarebooksinjapan.com> wrote:
> I wrote:
>> > In other words, he describes himself as a native American, growing up on
> a
>> > reservation,

> And Mike Fester clarified:

>> Not quite full-blooded: I spent a " reasonable part of my childhood" on
>> reservations, specifically the Lac du Flambeau Reservation in Northern
>> Wisconsin. My grandfather was Iroquois.

> OK. But you're clearly not coming from where Kaz has placed you. Your

This is a surprise because...

> Iroquois grandfather upsets his equations as much as my Irish grandfather

Hey, I knew an Irish-Japanese family; named 0'Gawa.

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

> did when he and I got into a similar barney a month or two ago...Well, *his*
> side of it was similar; I refrained from invective, as befits a man of my
> dignity and station in life ;-)

Me, I have entirely too much time on my hands :-)

> And, since we're talking, the state of Israel dates from....

From the time  the people with the guns got the land and called it such :-)

Mike