Native americans had slaves? Do you have any references to put in perspective and counter right wing boot licking perspectives on this matter? Like the issue is feudalism and capitalism/imperialism at the core. Like the natives had conflict… possibly scalped a few but I think the right wing on behalf of their “Yes big daddy” capo corpo masters like to paint images of a past a skew.
Slavery is hardly new, novel or confined to a single group of people. Slavery has been pretty common through out human history. So much so that we have archeological evidence of it back to Sumer. The real answer to someone bringing up slavery in other contexts is, “so what?” Yes, some native American tribes had slaves, that does not less the impact that slavery had on African people kidnapped and dragged to the Americas as slaves. Nor does it lessen the impact that a century of discrimination has wrought on Black Americans.
Honestly, it sounds like you have fallen into the Myth of the Noble Savage. Humans suck, we have always sucked, and that has been true across cultures. Every once in a while, we figure out how to suck less. But that tends to be rare, fragile and fleeting. Also, it’s often a lie and we just hide our suckage.
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow goes into how some Native Americans had slaves, and how/why other tribes refused to have them, though the whole book is an interesting and worthwhile read.
Why are you trying to argue with cited sources against right-wing flood-the-zone strategy? Give them references to counter or contextualize history and they’ll just come up with twenty more claims to bury you. Don’t let them make claims without providing their own sources, then mock them when their source turns out to be a Fox opinion show or worse.
Yeah pretty much this smells like an infowar casualty
