Wampum

I have a secret vice hidden from even my spouse -- I read l'Français Ancien. Jean de Joinville, Jean Froissart, François Villon, ... and Middle English. MB and I almost meet at the Latin to Vulgate boundary ...

When the combatants were completely armed, with lances in their rests, and mounted, they spurred their horses, and, lowering their spears, met each other with such force that their lances were twice broken against their breast-plates, but no other hurt ensued. They then took their third lance, and the shock was so great that the heads of Bordeaux steel pierced their shields, and through all their other armour even to the skin, but did not wound them: the spears were shattered, and the broken pieces flew over their helmets.

From A French Knight and an English Squire Joust by Froissart

Bush, Ahmadinejad, Chavez. Three courses with the lance, au Plaisance, before the city of New York.

There are other Indians who read European Literature, just not many. Erdrich and Dorris for example. Europe is a puzzle.