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I read that early Americans would finish winter, first take time to get food, then their men would go out to fight and kidnap from other tribes. There was a time for everything. If they kidnapped someone, that person became adopted and treated as family. Men proved themselves by doing this.
In case there is any accuracy to this > how would you like to have annual spring food gathering and preparation and farming, then men would raid other towns and cities to prove themselves in fighting and kidnapping any women and children they felt they needed back at home? You would, of course, adopt your slaves as family members. And doing this would prove your manhood. And everybody would be doing it; so it would be fine.
Actually, professional sports teams adopt each other's players, and then they become family in their new cities.
So, in case natives used to do that, I think that has already been somewhat debunked.
Great points, agreed, but if we did not kill them would we have to necessarily join them and follow them? The Native Americans in general were very open to negotiations for territory, to the point that their land eventually disappeared. Perhaps I've taken too much liking to Joseph Campbell. Still though, there was a lot of wisdom we could have gained from the Indians still (as tribal barbarians, but perhaps not from savages), such as the shamanic practices for what today are schizophrenics in hospitals, more respect for the earth instead of destroying it with waste, and a communal living structure offers some advantages in to our more segregated and individualistic society where a lot of people are lonely. But still, I think the question would boil down to whether or not their tribal nature forced our conquering of them, or if it was simply more convenient that civilizing them with rule of law.
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