Sure...it was territory...that’s it...NOT that they were hungry and the kids were easy prey...nah...THAT couldn’t be it.
Ug, hey little girl.
Want berry?
Cabeza de Vaca was shipwrecked on the Texas coast in 1528 and spent several years among the Indians of that area. He tells of two tribes, Marianes and Yguaces, who killed all their girl babies and gave them to dogs to eat. Their reasoning was that it was bad to marry their own kin, and if they gave their daughters to other tribes they would bear children and cause their enemies to multiply (since all the other tribes were their enemies). They obtained wives by buying them from other tribes.