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Why did native Americans never figure out you cld build fences around animals?

dragging a buffalo or deer carcass on foot several miles bac...
,.,.,.,.,,.,..,:,,:,,.,:,.,,.,:.,,.:.,:.,:.::,.
  11/01/26
You can't "fence" American Bison without meta...
Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband
  11/01/26
were stones not available? You could build 1/2-mile enclosur...
,.,.,.,.,,.,..,:,,:,,.,:,.,,.,:.,,.:.,:.,:.::,.
  11/01/26
There's a lot to be said for having to struggle a bit. ...
Fucking Fuckface
  11/01/26
“struggle a bit” = like a third of the village w...
,.,.,.,.,,.,..,:,,:,,.,:,.,,.,:.,,.:.,:.,:.::,.
  11/01/26
We'll never truly understand ourselves, but it says eve...
Fucking Fuckface
  11/01/26
calling bullshit on this. you only hear about the stories of...
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https://www.amazon.com/Captured-Story-Abduction-Indians-Fron...
Fucking Fuckface
  11/01/26
I’m aware of this I still say it was a small fraction ...
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Why do you think Franklin, a contemporary of the phenomenon ...
Fucking Fuckface
  11/01/26
because it’s a far more interesting topic than all the...
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  11/01/26
Wow, is that true??
Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband
  11/01/26
Yeah, there's a lot of interesting history to support t...
Fucking Fuckface
  11/01/26
Had to go dig this up. From Benjamin FUCKING Franklin (https...
Fucking Fuckface
  11/01/26
God damn. Feels like we might have made a mistake.
Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband
  11/01/26
Pretty much impossible to look around ourselves and think we...
Fucking Fuckface
  11/01/26
But they wouldn't have invented computer, so idk
Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband
  11/01/26
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They weren’t terrorized by birdshit lords taking their...
Tirant Lo Blanc
  11/01/26
Pretty much this
Fucking Fuckface
  11/01/26
i think you strip and dress it in the field not sure you co...
120 Days of Diaper
  11/01/26


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Date: November 1st, 2026 6:18 PM
Author: ,.,.,.,.,,.,..,:,,:,,.,:,.,,.,:.,,.:.,:.,:.::,.


dragging a buffalo or deer carcass on foot several miles back to your village every time you get a kill seems like a huge and unnecessary pain in the ass

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5917107&forum_id=2.#50220444)



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Date: November 1st, 2026 6:38 PM
Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband

You can't "fence" American Bison without metal, hth.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5917107&forum_id=2.#50220500)



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Date: November 1st, 2026 8:45 PM
Author: ,.,.,.,.,,.,..,:,,:,,.,:,.,,.,:.,,.:.,:.,:.::,.


were stones not available? You could build 1/2-mile enclosure in one season with a crew of 20 men

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5917107&forum_id=2.#50220945)



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Date: November 1st, 2026 6:21 PM
Author: Fucking Fuckface

There's a lot to be said for having to struggle a bit. One telling thing is that virtually to the man, everyone taken by tribes before being an oldmo desperately wanted to return after being "rescued" by white people

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5917107&forum_id=2.#50220448)



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Date: November 1st, 2026 6:24 PM
Author: ,.,.,.,.,,.,..,:,,:,,.,:,.,,.,:.,,.:.,:.,:.::,.


“struggle a bit” = like a third of the village would die every few years due to famine

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5917107&forum_id=2.#50220453)



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Date: November 1st, 2026 6:27 PM
Author: Fucking Fuckface

We'll never truly understand ourselves, but it says everything when it's almost universally preferred by people who have lived both ways

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5917107&forum_id=2.#50220465)



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Date: November 1st, 2026 6:49 PM
Author: ,.,.,.,.,,.,..,:,,:,,.,:,.,,.,:.,,.:.,:.,:.::,.


calling bullshit on this. you only hear about the stories of the former captives who wanted to return. the ones who just rejoined civilization don’t get written about

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5917107&forum_id=2.#50220533)



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Date: November 1st, 2026 7:11 PM
Author: Fucking Fuckface

https://www.amazon.com/Captured-Story-Abduction-Indians-Frontier/dp/0312317891/

Just a small sample size of experiences. But a good starting point if interested in the subject. There's also an audio book if that's more your thing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5917107&forum_id=2.#50220601)



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Date: November 1st, 2026 7:52 PM
Author: ,.,.,.,.,,.,..,:,,:,,.,:,.,,.,:.,,.:.,:.,:.::,.


I’m aware of this I still say it was a small fraction of captives

the people who just returned to civilization didn’t get written about in that book, for example

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5917107&forum_id=2.#50220724)



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Date: November 1st, 2026 7:53 PM
Author: Fucking Fuckface

Why do you think Franklin, a contemporary of the phenomenon with an interest in the outcome to the contrary (or even as a neutral observer), would relate it as the common outcome?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5917107&forum_id=2.#50220732)



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Date: November 1st, 2026 8:47 PM
Author: ,.,.,.,.,,.,..,:,,:,,.,:,.,,.,:.,,.:.,:.,:.::,.


because it’s a far more interesting topic than all the people who returned and just went about their business after a brush up with the red man

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5917107&forum_id=2.#50220952)



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Date: November 1st, 2026 6:37 PM
Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband

Wow, is that true??

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5917107&forum_id=2.#50220497)



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Date: November 1st, 2026 7:12 PM
Author: Fucking Fuckface

Yeah, there's a lot of interesting history to support this. Many such historical accounts to complement the book I linked to above



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5917107&forum_id=2.#50220607)



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Date: November 1st, 2026 7:27 PM
Author: Fucking Fuckface

Had to go dig this up. From Benjamin FUCKING Franklin (https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/letter-to-peter-collinson/)

EXCERPT: The proneness of human Nature to a life of ease, of freedom from care and labour appears strongly in the little success that has hitherto attended every attempt to civilize our American Indians, in their present way of living, almost all their Wants are supplied by the spontaneous Productions of Nature, with the addition of very little labour, if hunting and fishing may indeed be called labour when Game is so plenty, they visit us frequently, and see the advantages that Arts, Sciences, and compact Society procure us, they are not deficient in natural understanding and yet they have never shewn any Inclination to change their manner of life for ours, or to learn any of our Arts; When an Indian Child has been brought up among us, taught our language and habituated to our Customs, yet if he goes to see his relations and make one Indian Ramble with them, there is no perswading him ever to return, and that this is not natural to them merely as Indians, but as men, is plain from this, that when white persons of either sex have been taken prisoners young by the Indians, and lived a while among them, tho’ ransomed by their Friends, and treated with all imaginable tenderness to prevail with them to stay among the English, yet in a Short time they become disgusted with our manner of life, and the care and pains that are necessary to support it, and take the first good Opportunity of escaping again into the Woods, from whence there is no reclaiming them. One instance I remember to have heard, where the person was brought home to possess a good Estate; but finding some care necessary to keep it together, he relinquished it to a younger Brother, reserving to himself nothing but a gun and a match-Coat, with which he took his way again to the Wilderness.

Though they have few but natural wants and those easily supplied. But with us are infinite Artificial wants, no less craving than those of Nature, and much more difficult to satisfy; so that I am apt to imagine that close Societies subsisting by Labour and Arts, arose first not from choice, but from necessity: When numbers being driven by war from their hunting grounds and prevented by seas or by other nations were crowded together into some narrow Territories, which without labour would not afford them Food...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5917107&forum_id=2.#50220650)



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Date: November 1st, 2026 7:30 PM
Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband

God damn. Feels like we might have made a mistake.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5917107&forum_id=2.#50220664)



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Date: November 1st, 2026 7:54 PM
Author: Fucking Fuckface

Pretty much impossible to look around ourselves and think we got it right

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5917107&forum_id=2.#50220734)



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Date: November 1st, 2026 7:58 PM
Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband

But they wouldn't have invented computer, so idk

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5917107&forum_id=2.#50220745)



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Date: November 1st, 2026 7:50 PM
Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,




(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5917107&forum_id=2.#50220717)



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Date: November 1st, 2026 6:35 PM
Author: Tirant Lo Blanc

They weren’t terrorized by birdshit lords taking their property. It didn’t occur to them that some motherfucker could draw a line and steal all their shit. Scotch-Irish birdshits knew this well from the Plantations so they staked claims and built fences.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5917107&forum_id=2.#50220492)



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Date: November 1st, 2026 7:28 PM
Author: Fucking Fuckface

Pretty much this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5917107&forum_id=2.#50220656)



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Date: November 1st, 2026 8:41 PM
Author: 120 Days of Diaper

i think you strip and dress it in the field

not sure you could move an adult buffalo too far

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5917107&forum_id=2.#50220928)