Quote Originally Posted by Bugbear View Post
Like I have stated, hopefully very clearly, I am not an expert in any of this.

I'm not so sure about bear grease being "one of the very few sources of fat," especially to the "pre-invasion native." Is there a book on the subject stating this that I could read for more information.

I have no idea what Mel Gibson paints his face with, but I have read that Scots lived with and married into Native American tribes. I suppose I could go look up some citations, but I posted a link to Electric Scotland with some information on this not too long ago. It could have happened.

* Here's the link: Scotland and the American Indians, on Electric Scotland.
The best book on the subject, INMHO, is Colin Calloway's White People, Indians and Highlanders: Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America:

http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/genera...=9780195340129

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