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Did You Know Native Americans Owned Slaves?
Common Sense Evaluation ^

Posted on 06/23/2019 8:46:28 AM PDT by gaggs

A fact that is conveniently overlooked by those calling for reparations.

The 13th Amendment did not free all slaves in the boundaries of modern-day US. Members of five Native American nations, the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole Nations (known as the Five Tribes), owned black slaves. Located outside the territorial boundaries of the US in a region known as Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma), these sovereign nations were not affected by proclamations or constitutional amendments. Instead, separate treaties had to be made between the US and these Native American nations not only to free slaves, but also to formally end the American Civil War battles and antagonism between American and Native American troops.

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TOPICS: Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: 13thamendment; cherokee; chickasaw; choctaw; creek; fivetribes; indians; indiansownedslaves; oklahoma; seminole; slavery; thirteenthamendment
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To: litehaus

As an isolated set of continually-warring Stone Age tribes, no more advanced than the Neandertals or Cro-Magans, the average North American tribe actually had little advanced from the original invaders across the Bering Strait 12,000 years before during the Ice Ages.

Five exceptions, but none past the Stone Age.

Aztecs, and their many enemies. Perfected mass warfare for slaves and gold, ritual living sacrifices to pagan gods of thousands of captives, rock temples and walls in central Mexico. Existent when Cloumbus landed.

Mayans, and their enemies. Also mass warfare for captives and slaves and wealth, less obvious ritual sacrifices, also rock temples and towns, carvings, art in the Mayan Peninsula. Solid indications of irrigation, the beginnings of astronomy and date keeping, temple records. All abandoned and dead in 1492.

Incans, and their enemies. Peruvian temples and towns in the deep Andes mountains as protection against other Indian tribes. Tilling, cultivation of crops in permanent hillside terrains, limited but effective water and irrigation ditches.

Mississippi: Indian mound-building (possibly as protection against regular flooding, as temples and monuments for tribal chiefs. Corn/maize farming. Near constant tribal warfare for slaves, goods, food. Active across the river valleys from ND to MS, GA to TX as similar cultures and methods. No writing, no records, no wheel, no draft animals, no metals. Only stone tools and fire, weaving of baskets. No obvious cloth (leather and furs). Some boats - more common across the Alleghenies and Appalachian Mountains to the east, far north and northeast.

Cliff Dwellers (AZ, NM, CO, UT, NV) and their enemies. Retreated from irrigated flat lands to isolated cliff houses and dwellings as protection against other tribes. Hunter-gatherer, limited food storage and cultivation under very difficult conditions forced by warfare and drought. Stone and wood, weaving and


41 posted on 06/23/2019 10:26:41 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: jjotto
They didn’t have ponies before the arrival of the evil white men!

They also apparently never got around to inventing the wheel.

42 posted on 06/23/2019 10:29:04 AM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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To: gaggs

I have been waiting for this topic to be brought out. In the territory of New Mexico, 30% of the population were slaves around 1867, long after the Emancipation of the blacks. Then there was a special law passed outlawing it. There are several communities throughout New Mexico which were formed by the slaves after the Peonage Act of 1867. All tribes had them, Hispanics had them, Anglos had them, and the slaves were of all ethnics.


43 posted on 06/23/2019 10:33:23 AM PDT by ProudFossil
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To: Rinnwald

They didn’t have ponies until white man brought them.


44 posted on 06/23/2019 10:36:02 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Larry Lucido
"Actually, there were early “blogs” but they were called posts (in the public square) and you had to post the entire thing because posting clickbait would have been lame as hell (still is). Some folks came up with the idea of pop up ads, where someone would jump out from behind the post with an ad that said “Eat at Nathaniel’s” and stick it in front of what you were reading, but people figured out that they could use their rifle butts as popup blockers."

Wow! I didn't know that!

Thank goodness for knowledgeable FReepers.

45 posted on 06/23/2019 10:37:30 AM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: FLT-bird
Yes, of course. No matter how much we may deplore it, slavery was THE NORM throughout human history until it died (at least open and legal slavery) in the West over the course of about 75 years during the 19th century. Then that gradually spread to the rest of the world.

Best tell that to the rest of the world. The latest estimate of the known and legal number of slaves in the world now is around 75,000,000. That shows it has NOT died out.

46 posted on 06/23/2019 10:37:37 AM PDT by ProudFossil
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To: Robert A Cook PE; gaggs

I am amazed whenever an article on this subject appears in the popular press. These facts are so well known by anthropolgists and historians, and their nuanced applications to the specific tribes, it catches me by surprise when an author like this writes as if he just found out.

I guess peroid reminders don’t hurt anything.


47 posted on 06/23/2019 10:55:33 AM PDT by oldplayer
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To: gaggs

This is news to some people?


48 posted on 06/23/2019 11:08:43 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: reg45

NO.


49 posted on 06/23/2019 11:40:20 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Popman

Kind, benevolent to each other.

All the Indian men had to do was hunt, fight, fish, and practice making little Indians, and the women did all the real work. Then came the white man and ruined it all.

SEE how sweet and kind the Indians were before the evil white man arrived...

http://westerndigs.org/evidence-of-hobbling-torture-discovered-at-ancient-massacre-site-in-colorado/


50 posted on 06/23/2019 11:53:31 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: RArtfulogerDodger

Yep

They hunted animals, too. With weapons. (Gasp!)


51 posted on 06/23/2019 11:53:47 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Larry Lucido

Everybody had pony!!


52 posted on 06/23/2019 11:54:40 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: gaggs

Ok, now we can start taxing their casinos and giving reparations to the slaves’ multi generation descendants.


53 posted on 06/23/2019 12:07:13 PM PDT by bgill
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To: 2banana
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

From the Declaration of Indepencence

54 posted on 06/23/2019 12:50:39 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the video")
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To: litehaus

The Aboriginals had a true paleolithic culture.

They did not have the bow.

The only “domesticated” animals were dogs, and they were not generally trained or bred.

They did not have pottery.

They had no agriculture.

Their level of organization was low, with quite small tribes. They could muster, at most, a few hundred men.

Even their stoneworking was at a relatively low level, perhaps due to lack of suitable stone.

Most of their technology was in wood.


55 posted on 06/23/2019 2:42:46 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: reg45

Most Equine evolution occurred in what is now North America. Equids have been around for some 32 million years, so the continents were in different places due to plate tectonics. It is generally believed that no horses existed in NA during the time that Siberian Asians crossed the land bridge which existed between Russia and the U.S.-the land bridge existed because of the glaciers which covered a great deal of the Central U.S., making it an inhospitable place for horses. Some try to argue that horses sis exist here then, but no horses from that evolutionary era have ever been unearthed during the many excavations carried out in the U.S.


56 posted on 06/23/2019 4:12:00 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: gaggs

Yes, I did.

Slavery is a common occurrence throughout the history of all fallen humanity.


57 posted on 06/23/2019 5:25:47 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: gaggs

Many variations of Slavery. The Patriarch of my Family was an Indentured Hessian, the Hessian’s would just pluck Teen aged Males from the fields put them on a Ship to the Americas, train the survivors of the trip and send them into battle.

Basically Leased or Rented by the English. If they were killed the Hessian’s were re-reimbursed by England. However if they lived and did not return... nada payments. The Hessian’s then went back to where they picked up the Teen and Impounded All of the Family possessions.

My Patriarch stayed here after the Revolution, Married an English gal... I have a copy (pdf) of his Wanted Poster and what would happen to his Family if he did not return.

May not be the most exact definition of Slavery, close enough for me. I have Slave Blood!


58 posted on 06/23/2019 5:56:33 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!)
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To: ProudFossil

Legal slaves? Where do they do that?


59 posted on 06/23/2019 6:13:21 PM PDT by JerseyDvl ("If you're going through hell, keep going.")
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To: JerseyDvl
Legal slaves? Where do they do that?

Mostly in Africa.

https://face2faceafrica.com/article/slavery-africa-today

60 posted on 06/24/2019 5:13:17 AM PDT by ProudFossil
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