Yeah, we were bred nearly out of existence. Another oddity is that many went to work inland (way inland) and became iron workers. They even did a lot of work on that bridge that goes from Michigan to Canada or some island way out there. I forget the name - Mackinaw, maybe?
It was quite deliberate. We didn't make very good slaves, so we were pretty roughly treated in other ways. To force breeding, English soldiers would do stuff like bayonet our children - to save the cost of lead and gunpowder. There are tales of them swinging children by the feet and dashing their heads on trees and rocks, again to save on the cost of lead and gunpowder, but the Brits didn't write that down. So, we can't prove that bit - but we can prove the bayoneting of children and the reasons why they used bayonets. They wrote that shit down.
Trying to enslave us was futile. We'd just escape and burn shit down as we ran away.
That sucks. The tribe my grandfather is from was moved out here from New York back in the old days
They'd maybe also be Abanaki, or maybe Seneca. Hmm... Seneca might also be a part of the Abanaki Confederacy. I'm not really sure.
Things were actually better for us, as far as my tribe goes, for part of the time at least, on the US side of the border.
He was Oneida
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