I thought Squanto was the Indian who taught the Pilgrims to fertilize their fields with fish, and later joined them in their first Thanksgiving celebration.
I’ve heard of Indians who were slaveowners but never as slaves.
I was taught as a youngster (pre-PC days) that Squanto spoke English because he had been captured and sold into slavery, eventually obtaining his freedom and returning to Massachusetts.
Squanto’s tribe had disappeared and he was held captive by other suspicious natives. He was so willing to help the Pilgrims because they treated him better.
I think he was, but part of the story this teacher was reading detailed how Europeans came and took him back to Europe as a slave. I really wish I had a copy of the book in front of me because it’s been a while since I heard it being read :0(
The tribes enslaved one another too.
Nobody wants to talk about the fact that when one group battled another group, and somebody won. That group then enslaved the losers. You were garrisoned. You were assigned a tribute.
That’s how it worked, unless you tried picking a fight with the Romans. There are no more Lombards, Carthaginians, or Picts. Rome killed every last one, and in Carthage’s case, sowed their fields with salt to ensure another people couldn’t rise up from the area to threaten Rome.
It was mass genocide, or slavery, but it was universal.
TODAY, slavery is just a business, and its booming.
Most of the inter-tribal warfare (that was a constant until the Indian wars ceased) was over hunting rights and slave gathering. Even Whites and Blacks were taken as slaves.
Tribes would make the tribes into slaves after a battle or just on a raid. They enslaved anyone they wanted to.
One thing that made the Five Civilized Tribes civilized was the fact that they owned slaves. The Cherokee I know for a fact, held black slaves because when emancipation was ordered they offered freedom or tribal citizenship many chose the tribe. I think the tribe recently tried to remove the black Cherokees but were thwarted in their effort.
Indians used to raid other tribes for slaves and women. I guess kidnapping and rape is cheaper than a diamond and a wedding reception. I laugh at the meek and mild depictions of our Native Americans in today’s media.