Evocative post in the Kilt Accessories forum - some thoughts

[Norbydog]

Just to add a little.

I had a college professor, in West History, who was a member of the Sioux Rosebud Tribe. She called the contact between Europe and North America, "The Columbian Exchange". She said that although it is highly published that European diseases killed many American Indians; but the tribes that had contact with Europeans also gave the explorers diseases. I am fairly certain, but do not hold me to this, that the American Indian population exposed Europeans to syphillis. That is her account, not mine. But I have some belief in it, as I do not recall learning of any European being diagnosed with syphillis prior to 1492.

Just food for thought.

P.S. Oh yeah, she also taught that horses and cattle were not native to the Americas, and cows were deadly, manical beasts before they were domesticated, much like the hippo is today.