The ignorance about First Nation peoples is absolutely astounding. It's a part of American history and hardly anyone has a fucking clue. First of all there were hundreds of different tribes with entirely different cultures, languages, customs, types of homes, diet, spirituality. Teepees were used by Plains tribes. Permanent homes for most of the other tribes. The Navajo tribe had huge orchards of peach trees. They were once called The Lord of The Earth by other tribes. They had two types of homes one for summer and one for winter. Pueblo people have been living in towns long before Europeans came up with the concept. What about the mound builders? The Mandan? Not all Native Americans were egalitarian. Most had gardens and orchards and livestock.
I bet most of you didn't know that the Constitution was based on the Great Haudenosaunee Law of Peace. Which governed the 6 (so-called) civilized tribes. The Oneida, Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, the Seneca and Tuscarora. Which had a provision regarding the equality of women that was left out of the Constitution of the U.S.. Nor, do I suspect, that any of you know the stories of raping and pillaging savage "Indians" were (for the most part) propaganda used to justify atrocities against native peoples. I'm not saying it didn't happen. I'm saying it was a rare incident.
All of that pales in comparison to atrocities like The Sandcreek Massacre, Wounded Knee, The Trail of Tears, The Long Walk, Canyon del Muerto, The forced relocation of Apache, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole to Oklahoma. The deaths were in the hundreds of thousands. By the time America was done, 1/3 of the native population was wiped out by disease (introduced deliberately or by accident), massacre, relocation, and starvation.
We had a holocaust in this country and to this day our government will not acknowledge it.
Oh and one final thing. Slavery among Native folk was a completely different concept than among white folks. Usually slaves were taken in times of war or were captured after attempts at raiding or stealing. They usually worked for the tribes for a time in servitude and were eventually released or married into the tribe.
..truth shall set you free.....
I am literally LOL and have perma grin thinking about my nephew trying to be all cool and shit on his dad's computer 
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