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I grew up admiring the Native Cultures, so understand I don't have blinders on. The whole "they're free and brotherly" is completely false. They were not told "you do this or you die", they were effectively told "you do this or you're out of the tribe" ... which was the exact same thing. It was the same social control the Europeans had in America using Expulsion. It was effectively a death sentence.
Yes, women who were taken captive would often run back to the tribes after rescue. However, that doesn't change the fact that it proves the point that constant raids and stealing of your family members was a constant and real threat to your "peaceful" existence. I don't know about you, but I feel pretty damn safe from the threat of my neighbor stealing my wife at gunpoint and forcing her to bear his children.
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"Smite the rocks with the rod of knowledge, and fountains of unstinted wealth will gush forth." - Ashbel Smith as he laid the first cornerstone of the University of Texas
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