ELL: response to WSJ editorial

[Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine]

Oki all,

The ELL list isn't the place to carry this (American mythology) out.

The subject comes up periodically on TribalLaw. We looked into the
Albany Convention records. More to the "Mayflower" myth, those of
us who work on 17th and 18th century New France and New England
treaties know what English law concerning land and persons was, and
how it reflected the changes in the English Settlements during the
17th and 18th centuries.

If Overseas English want their mythologies un-deconstructed, heck,
these are their belief systems.

Lets not waste each others' limited social tolerence bugets on the
merits of Settler Ideologies, neh?

Jeez, the WSJ editorial page. How irrelevent.

Kitakitamatsinopowaw,
Eric
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