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John Fire Lame Deer (Original Post) kpete Jan 2013 OP
K&r PeaceNikki Jan 2013 #1
This isn't entirely truthful NoOneMan Jan 2013 #2
How do you know? Did you live way back when? RebelOne Jan 2013 #5
Well, because Europeans brought horses with them NoOneMan Jan 2013 #6
Well, yeah... but aside from that you got nothin' cthulu2016 Jan 2013 #7
Short sighted just us Jan 2013 #8
"before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men" horses did not exist here. NoOneMan Jan 2013 #9
Wow-very heavy (as we used to say in the 60s). narnian60 Jan 2013 #3
Unless you belonged to another tribe. Brickbat Jan 2013 #4
 

NoOneMan

(4,795 posts)
2. This isn't entirely truthful
Sun Jan 6, 2013, 09:18 PM
Jan 2013

Nobody was given a horse way back when. Maybe a tent, but not a horse

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)
5. How do you know? Did you live way back when?
Sun Jan 6, 2013, 09:46 PM
Jan 2013

Native Americans had more compassion toward their brothers than did white Americans.

 

NoOneMan

(4,795 posts)
6. Well, because Europeans brought horses with them
Sun Jan 6, 2013, 10:01 PM
Jan 2013

Unless there is a North American species that the indigenous people use to gift around.

just us

(105 posts)
8. Short sighted
Mon Jan 7, 2013, 12:17 PM
Jan 2013

The Euros brought horses in the 15th cen. by the 17th cen. the native americans had mastered and bred 200,000 horses. So add 200 years of crime free society to 12,000 or more years of occupation.

 

NoOneMan

(4,795 posts)
9. "before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men" horses did not exist here.
Mon Jan 7, 2013, 12:26 PM
Jan 2013


Other than that, seems pretty much right on.
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