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John Fire Lame Deer (Original Post)
kpete
Jan 2013
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NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)2. This isn't entirely truthful
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?
Native Americans had more compassion toward their brothers than did white Americans.
NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)6. Well, because Europeans brought horses with them
Unless there is a North American species that the indigenous people use to gift around.
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)7. Well, yeah... but aside from that you got nothin'
just us
(105 posts)8. Short sighted
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.
Other than that, seems pretty much right on.
narnian60
(3,510 posts)3. Wow-very heavy (as we used to say in the 60s).
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)4. Unless you belonged to another tribe.