Jade Dragon
And I'm the one that jaded you.
And for some reason, Damo couldn't do this. Thanks for acting like an adult.S. C. Gwynne's book "Empire of the Summer Moon" told how Native American tribes were vicious, torturous and slavers. There was no such thing as "the noble savage". People are people. LOL
Slavery among Native Americans in the United States includes slavery by and enslavement of Native Americans roughly within what is currently the United States of America....
Slavery among Native Americans in the United States - Wikipedia
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...Many Native-American tribes practiced some form of slavery before the European introduction of African slavery into North America.[2][3]
The Haida and Tlingit peoples who lived along the southeastern Alaskan coast were traditionally known as fierce warriors and slave-traders, raiding as far as California. Slavery was hereditary after slaves were taken as prisoners of war. Among some Pacific Northwest tribes, about a quarter of the population were slaves.[5][6] Other slave-owning tribes of North America were, for example, Comanche[7] of Texas, Creek of Georgia, the fishing societies, such as the Yurok, that lived along the coast from what is now Alaska to California; the Pawnee, and Klamath.[8]
Torture among Native Americans has historical roots in the practices of various indigenous tribes, where it was often directed towards enemies, captives, and those who violated tribal norms. While some tribes, like the Pueblo Indians, reportedly engaged in little to no torture, others, particularly in the Eastern Woodlands and Plains cultures, practiced it more frequently....
Torture among Native Americans | Religion and Philosophy | Research Starters | EBSCO Research
<p>Torture among Native Americans has historical roots in the practices of various indigenous tribes, where it was often directed towards enemies, captives, and those who violated tribal norms. While some tribes, like the Pueblo Indians, reportedly engaged in little to no torture, others...www.ebsco.com
...Torture took place in several varieties. Often the captors tied enemies to a stake or other framework and burned them with bonfires, firebrands, or coals. Stabbing, beating, and cutting the victims often occurred along with the burnings, as did mutilation and dismemberment. Torturers often shot arrows or, after obtaining guns, bullets into the suffering captives. Some of the unlucky experienced the horrors of feeling themselves disemboweled, flayed, or scalped while they were still alive. On many occasions, however, the goal of torture was not death. With such customs as the gauntlet, in which victims had to run or stagger through rows of kicking, punching, and beating tribal members lined up in parallel or spiral formations, a tribe was often testing captives as potential adoptees or slaves. If a captive showed pluck or fortitude, he or she might even be rewarded with freedom.
To individual tribal groups, torture probably had many and different meanings. On one level it was surely an expression of simple revenge. Yet for most groups, torture also served military, social, and religious needs. Tribes could earn a terrifying and fearsome reputation through renowned torture. Members who had not participated in the actual battle or capture could join communally in a torture ceremony. Many indigenous peoples also believed that enemies would haunt them in an afterworld, and mutilation would distinctly disable those enemies. Sometimes torture was propitiation of certain spirits, manitous, or windigos. Whatever the case, torture was not, as many European Americans feared and believed, random, unthinking violence, but rather a custom integrated into the tribal worldview.
