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I just want to say Germans can be an outlier regarding European/Indigenous interactions. They have had this weird on again off again fascination with Indigenous America sparked by a novelist that as near I can remember never traveled to North America. I find it simultaneously endearing, weird, and funny.
lol ..... Karl May ... a German writer who wrote a bunch of fanciful made up material in the late 1800s early 1900s about Indians in North America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_May
I actually had one old Polish friend who grew up with these books ... he died years ago but he was born in the 1920s in western Poland in a Germanic area ... fascinating guy who lived, fought and survived the Second World War fighting with the resistance and for the allies ... after the war he immigrated to Canada and lived his life here ... but he also had run ins where at the start of the war, he actually fought for the German army because he was forced to ... he had weird stories of being in the middle of everything, and his family could never really figure out if he was pro-fascist, anti-fascist, pro-communist, anti-communist ... or just some kid who did his best to just survive the war (he was 13 when the fighting started and he spent his time as a teen fighting and surviving).
He was fun because whenever we met he called me Winnetou (pronounced 'Vee-Nah-Two') .... the main Indian character from Karl May's books.
Haven't thought of my old friend for years ... thanks for the reminder.