how did the indians manage to arm and support their warriors with the white devils' thunder sticks? they clearly didn't know how to make bullets or even black powder for that matter, so where did they get ammo, spare parts, lubricant etc?
>>64658456Comancheros and other crooked traders
>>64658456jewish traders
>>64658615>>64658661>t. got scalped at the Comanche Nation Casino
>>64658456Early on while fighting British settlers, they would trade furs for guns with the French. When fighting the Americans in the Revolutionary War, they'd trade furs with the British.
>>64658456They largely got all their bullets and powder etc from the same trade they got the guns from in the first place, besides gaps they could fill in some way like animal fat for lubricant.Trade was easy for for them because how does anyone long before governments have even invented 'income taxes', before even one country owns the Americas, before any country in the Americas even has a solid border, stop people from selling to Indians? Indians had awesome shit like furs and squaws and random white people went to the frontier constantly to obtain those things in exchange for trifles like a cast iron pot or black powder or bullets.They didn't have an ultimate logistical solution which is why they don't exist anymore. There were cases when Indians had better firepower and humiliated the white man in some battles, and then always got wiped out eventually away because the white man had a massive industrialized and populous civilization and reacted to every defeat by sending a larger better equipped and supplied army and chasing the Indians around until the Indians sued for peace exhausted/freezing/starving.
For the right price, anything can be for sale.But they'd do shit like gnaw on bullets to swage them down if they didn't fit. It was sort of like how today if you pick a criminal today out at complete random, there's a decent chance his weapon is>in such poor condition it's barely operable >wrong ammo loaded, wouldn't have actually worked anyway >damaged and doesn't shoot straight
>>64658456the indians weren't a unified group, and at various times and places have participated in considerable trade with white colonists since the 17th century. While one group might be at war with settlers, having to resort to raids and ambushes to collect modern weapons, another group might be trading guns for skins or services, and this might go back and forth, with groups also trading between each other. Also what the fuck is this captcha
>>64659026>Also what the fuck is this captchaIf I imagine it as a really abbreviated IQ test where you look for patterns, it's a little more "fun"I don't know why they do this though, it doesn't help the quality of the board whatsoever
>>64659055I keep wondering whether chatgpt couldn't determine the difference between a square and a circle. Does that thing really work as a captcha?
>>64659066>Does that thing really work as a captcha?I have no idea. I'm more tech illiterate than most boomers, but personally I find the new one easier and faster. Maybe I have dyslexia or some shit
