"We are effecting, through kindness, the kind of exclusion that the first Europeans effected through violence."

Hey Andre, you should pick up Champlain's Dream by David Hackett Fischer. I appreciate the measured tenor of your article -- the finest I've read about this particular case -- but you seem to go an almost saintly distance out of your way to avoid the slightest offense to marginalized voices and then, at the very end, charge like a bull into the china-shop of the European cultural legacy. Does it just serve us right or something?