re: #163 William Lewis

Oh of course. It’s at the core of the fear of colonial officials/troops/etc “going native”. No, I just found it interesting to see reminders of the German colonies pre-WWI and talking about it in general. I’m reminded, more by accident than by any actual similarities, of The Lover, the 1992 film based on the novel of the same name by Marguerite Duras.

The settlers of the English colonies in America went native at a good clip. The Seminole tribe was a spinoff of SE tribes, runaway slaves, and white “defectors”. See also—Last of the Mohicans.