I heard that Native Americans would steal children from other

>>3079500

If they wiped out a rival band in combat, it was not unusual to keep the very small children and raise them as their own. It was more a case of not wanting to kill children or to leave them to die than a desire to steal them, tho.

>>3079500
At least many of the Plains tribes did. It was part of larger raids, but children (and often women) would be stolen from the other tribe. They provided labor for the households they were taken into and increased the population in an environment with high child mortality.

>>3079500
tf is wrong with this lady mouth??

>>3079500
That seems like a near universal thing in tribal society from all I've read but yes Southeast and Midwest nations did do this.

Why do you question child adoption as if it's unique to native Americans?

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>>3079500
Sometimes white people steal Native Americans from their tribes and raise them as their own, to the degree where we had to make a law about it:
http://www.icwlc.org/education-hub/understanding-the-icwa/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Child_Welfare_Act#History

> In Minnesota from 1971-1972, 13% of all Indian Children (25% of Indian Children under age 1) were in adoptive homes and 90% of placements were in non-Native homes.
...and were a lot more prolific about it.