The tribes should be allowed to regulate marriage just like they did before the evil white man came.
They should be able to sell their women as slaves.
The chief should decide who they marry.
They should be able to marry them off at a very young age.
The men should be able to have as many wife’s as they can afford.
Then finally they should be able to kill them any time they want.
The women should do most of the hard physical labor.
Just like they did before the evil white man came.
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First, every tribe had their own rules.
It was mainly up to the women and their parents whether a fellow could marry their daughter, and female elders generally could put the skids to things.
When one of the participants could be a relative, yeah, it keeps the kids from having some of the more obvious defects.
They should be able to sell their women as slaves.
No, they sold other people's women, captured on raids, if they sold anyone.
The chief should decide who they marry.
Not in any tribe I know of. It was a decision first made by the participants, and likely, if vetoed, vetoed by the elder women (who knew who was how closely related). Spouses tended to come from another band because bands were often extended family units.
They should be able to marry them off at a very young age.
How young is young? The marriage age of consent in Colonial society was as low as 14 in some areas. My grandmother was an old maid of 16 when she and my grandfather entered into a lifelong marriage that only ended with my grandfather's death at nearly 80; my grandmother lived to 101. Try to beat that.
Now we raise neotenic children who aren't as mature at 30 as my grandparent's generations was at 15. So don't use modern child development as a metric.
The men should be able to have as many wife’s as they can afford.
Think about that. You live in a small lodge, women are territorial, at least when it comes to their home. You can't afford more than one wife.
Then finally they should be able to kill them any time they want.
White man's fantasy. Really. Sounds like someone is projecting Muslims on Indians (feather, not dot). Children were generally not beaten, nor wives, and anyone who did would have to answer to the extended family. Only the lowest of the low would beat their wife or children. Murder would not go over well and might lead to slowly feeding an anthill.
In a small unit society such crap simply cannot be tolerated.
The women should do most of the hard physical labor.
Hey! (but seriously), there were jobs for everyone. No slackers. Would you rather have them pulling guard duty while the men are chewing hides and cooking?
Everyone had a job. The men were the fighters and hunters, and some were craftsmen, the women took care of the housework, including setting it up and taking it down. The men could do all these other tasks, they had learned them as children at their mother's knee. But push come to shove, the primary job of the men was to hunt and defend the band, not that the women couldn't fight, too. (As my wife says, "How many of those men could breast feed a baby?"--good point.)
Just like they did before the evil white man came.
Who is this guy? Is he the same one as the rich White man? I never met him.