Brithenig/Aelyan North America (was: Re: Languages in theBrithenig univer...

In a message dated 4/7/2000 10:16:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
jmpearson@FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU writes:

<< the only way in which the indigenous Americans could have survived
 in sufficient numbers to establish nation-states is if European colonisation
 had been a *lot* more gradual and a *lot* less fanatical there than here. >>

And if that were the case, far more likely many of the colonists could have
been killed off, repelled or otherwise kept in their place.  Perhaps *There*,
the technological gap is not so wide?
Am finding this a wildly fascinating thread, even tho so far it hasn't been
contacted by the Galactic Unity and received the Kash-speaking Emissary.  In
any case, that doesn't happen *Here* until 2005 or so.  (In an earlier
version, we contact them, around 2300.)
But for Napoleon/Jefferson, I might have grown up francophone in Dacota-Sud--
but OTOH most likely Anglo/Dutch/Welsh  great-granddad would never have
crossed the Mississippi, and I'd still be plowing in Indiana. What a ghastly
thought. As for South Florida, it could be an Antillean dependency.