{"id":211015,"date":"2020-07-27T07:47:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T07:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=211015"},"modified":"2020-07-29T05:38:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T05:38:25","slug":"slavery-nearly-universal-among-native-american-indian-tribes-prior-to-white-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=211015","title":{"rendered":"Slavery Nearly Universal Among \u2018Native American\u2019 Indian Tribes Prior to White Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"

National Vanguard \u2013 July 14, 2020<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n

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ACCORDING TO\u00a0Almon Lauber\u2019s booklet<\/a><\/strong><\/span>,\u00a0Indian Slavery In Colonial Times Within The Present Limits Of The United States<\/em>, published by the Faculty of Political Science at Columbia University in 1913, slavery and the slave trade were nearly universally practiced among the \u2018Native\u2019 Indians prior to the appearance of the White man on the North American continent:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2026Individual instances of slavery proceeded from other causes.\u00a0The Indians were inveterate gamblers, and when nothing else was left, both men and women not infrequently staked themselves to serve as slaves in case of loss. Such slavery was sometimes for life, and sometimes for such short periods of time as a year or two. In case of famine, the Indians even sold their children to obtain food.<\/span><\/p>\n

The slaves possessed by a given Indian tribe were oftener obtained through barter with other tribes. This intertribal traffic, though probably not common, was evidently far-reaching. Owing to the wandering habits of the Indians and their custom of bartering goods with other tribes, articles of copper became distributed throughout the North west, especially in Wisconsin.\u00a0The Illinois Indians possessed slaves who came from the sea coast, probably Florida. The\u00a0Illinois also bartered their slaves with the Ottawa for guns, powder, kettles and knives, and with the Iroquois to obtain peace. Marquette found (1673) among the Arkansas Indians, knives, beads and hatchets which had been obtained partly from the Illinois and partly from the Indians farther to the east.\u00a0The Jesuit, Grelon, relates that in Chinese Tartary he met a Huron woman whom he had known in America.<\/span><\/p>\n

The transition from the method of obtaining slaves by actual warfare and barter to that of mere slave raids was an easy one. The desire to gain the reputation of a skillful hunter, and, still more, of a brave warrior, and thus to win the esteem and regard of his tribesmen, was inherent among the natives. To be a brave warrior was to be truly a man. So eager was the Indian to acquire the name of \u201cbrave \u201d that\u00a0he unhesitatingly underwent any hardships to obtain slaves or scalps as a proof of his qualifications for the title. This means of obtaining slaves was used by the stronger tribes like the Illinois and the Iroquois.<\/span><\/p>\n

The slaves bartered by the Illinois were generally taken in the territory beyond the Mississippi.\u00a0This the Illinois were better able to do after the coming of the whites, as they were provided with guns, while the Indians to the westward had no weapons of the sort.\u00a0One of the chief sources from which these slaves was obtained was the Pawnee nation. In 1719, Du Tisne wrote to Bienville, the commandant at New Orleans, that the Pawnee were afraid of him when he arrived among them, as their neighbors, the Osage,\u00a0had made them believe that his intention was to entrap and enslave them.<\/span><\/p>\n

The same practice was followed by the other northern tribes.\u00a0La Jeune, in 1632, found slaves among the Algonquin. The\u00a0Indians of the Great Lakes region had a young Esquimaux as a slave in 1646. Tonti found Iroquois slaves among the Huron and Ottawa. The Dutch navigator, Hendrickson, in 1616, found the Indians of the Schuylkill River country holding Indian slaves.<\/span><\/p>\n

And yet our government-subsidized Marxist indoctrination centers \u2014 also known as \u2018schools\u2019 \u2014 insist that the \u201cnoble\u201d Native Indians were morally superior to the evil, greedy White Man who \u201cgenocided\u201d tens of millions of them while robbing them blind.<\/span><\/p>\n

Natives would trade their own mothers and daughters away for a pretty handful of beads if it suited them, as Lauber\u2019s book makes clear.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read the Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson<\/em> of\u00a0Mary Rowlandson<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, a young White woman who was abducted during an Indian raid in Massachusetts in 1675 \u2014 and you will quickly be disabused about any romantic idea of the \u201cnoble\u201d Indian.<\/span><\/p>\n

Captivity narratives<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0contain a wealth of first-hand eyewitness accounts of what it was like for White colonists to interact with these \u201cnoble\u201d savages \u2014 E. F. Abbott\u2019s captivity narrative of\u00a0Mary Jemison<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0is especially enlightening.<\/span><\/p>\n

The White man called them \u201csavages\u201d for a reason \u2014 and it wasn\u2019t because of \u201cracism\u201d \u2014 it was from observing their often sadistic and inhuman behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n

And, no, the Indians did not behave this way in response to how the White man treated them \u2014 \u201cthe devil made them do it\u201d excuse.<\/span><\/p>\n

That they would have any scruples against trading in slaves is laughable \u2014 they certainly didn\u2019t learn slavery from the White man.<\/span><\/p>\n

And that explains why some the earliest owners of Black slaves in America were Native Indians.<\/span><\/p>\n

But since none of this fits into the official kosher narrative of \u201cWhite Man Bad, Red Man Good\u201d promoted in schools, this reality must be virtually ignored, except by certified academic Leftists who will use this historical information \u201cresponsibly\u201d \u2014 certainly not to incite \u201cracial hatred\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo of Native Indian slave owner with Black slave. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Thousands of descendants of Black slaves were brought to Oklahoma more than 170 years ago by Native American slave owners. The Cherokee nation voted after the Civil War to admit the slave descendants to the tribe. But recently, the tribe\u2019s Supreme Court ruled that a 2007 tribal decision to kick the so-called \u2018Freedmen\u2019 out of the tribe could be upheld.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Original source: Truth to Power<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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