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
Iroquois grandfather upsets his equations as much as my Irish grandfather
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 ;-)

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

No, on second thoughts, let's not start *that* again!

--
John
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