Not always,,,, I try to preach this,,,and get a lot of h**e mail,,, I have read a lot of what some elders wrote, but was never published, cause it was not a marketable book...but the reality, is the Indians existence was survival, if you were too old to provide you were a d**g on society, and unless there was an abundance, which there seldom was, you would have to leave, and they did, they would go off and die,,, women without husbands or widowers too old to remarry were just left to die. Though not always of course, there were "elders" in tribes, but that life was damned hard,, people didn't live long enough in general, to become feeble,, the very life k**led them. 50 something was OLD for Indians,,,, some did better,, some not so much.
People are people, there really have been few societies that were better than others, it is a romantic myth, that we injuns were above human traits of greed, anger, being mean, etc etc etc...
Not always,,,, I try to preach this,,,and get a lo... (
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