re: #167 Decatur Deb

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.

IIRC, didn’t Conrad’s Heart of Darkness deal with the whole “going native” thing? It’s been years and years since I read it, but didn’t Kurtz basically set himself up as some kind of deity-like figure? I could also swear in the story he’d also taken an African woman as his wife/partner/consort.

It’s been so long since I’ve read it.