Chuck Grimes asked me offlist why I didn't want any discussion of Churchill's footnoting practices. It's a good question, and here's what I said:
>I'm afraid it'd be a lot of people talking about what they don't
>know much about. Also, I gotta say, it makes me nervous that pissing
>on Churchill's scholarship will contribute something to minimizing
>the horror of Indian genocide. So what if he got some details wrong,
>white people did kill 90% of them and still treat them like shit.
Doug