I played Cowboys and Indians as a child. Sometimes I was the Cowboy, sometimes I was the Indian. Sometimes my playmate of Nisqually ancestry was the Cowboy. Sometimes he was the Indian. This marked me for life and that is why I am the way that I am. ;)
We played Cowboys and Indians too, and because I was the youngest, I was always the one who got captured and tied up. Somehow I grew up normal without being traumatized. There were no snowflakes in the 50’s.