Part of the reason we assume our ideas about native peoples is that so much of thier written and graphic heritage has been -deliberately- destroyed (remeber, they were called "heathens" and had to be christianized) So we really don't know if they had a Vlad-The-Impaler or a Shakespeare, or not? That's why the oral traditiona grew and it so important intheir culture (as it is in African-American culture) those stories are passed down from generation to generation and naturally something gets lost in the transference. Certainly outsiders can't be trusted to maintain what is known, for the large part, the outsiders ancestors were the ones who destroyed their culture in the first place -- so why share it with descendents fo people who broke -very- treaty, raped, pillaged, burned, etc., etc., and now make 'false images' of things were in "westerns". ?? rj <[log in to unmask]>