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
>>64659026 >Also what the fuck is this captchaAt first I hated it because it broke my 4chan X extension, forcing me to delete it and get the userscript instead, but now I love it, as I see way less sub-70 IQ posters.>>64659055>it doesn't help the quality of the board whatsoeverI think it does.
captcha may actually keep dumb dumbs away, very good.
>>64659538I can't imagine being too dumb to know the difference between 1 dot and 4 dots
>>64658456seen that webm of a guy giving out machetes to homeless addicts?now imagine that, but with settlers having a laugh from giving out guns for the tribes to fight each other
>>64658456Typical counter revolutionary tactics, steal from the dead. Plus, less so, gun running profiteers. They are natural thieves and will steal firewood if given a chance.
>>64658456Trading and stealing. If they were Iroquois then during the French and Indian War they got them from the Bongs while the Algonquin got them from the Frogs. Their Iroquois split down the middle during the Revolutionary War, the ones allied with the new Murica kept their land until the 1930s when they sold off swaths of it and started Casinos in Upstate New York.
>>64658937>But they'd do shitThey would take off the steel butt plates and make knives out of them. They didn't really have higher technology other than stealing it. True stone-agers. The >muh noble savagaesIs a modern construct. The men would mutilate thier own women, slave and traffic children of other tribes and whites.>Inb4 basedThey would have casterated you, before torturing you to death. True heathens.
>>64659496>but now I love itIt's ironic that the Captcha best at blocking AI bots, also blocks human idiots.
>>64658456>jumping around like idiots>my grandfather is a coyote>cultureRetards.
>>64659026>Also what the fuck is this captchaI'm happy that it's the easiest it's ever been since we left the ". nigger" recaptcha days.I'm mad that I accidentally clicked "post" instead of "next" one time and now it makes me do 2 tests instead of just 1.
>>64658456Trade and loot.
>>64658456>pre-IndependenceFrench and British regularly armed opposing tribes as part of proxy wars.>post-IndependenceUnironically the free market. Trading posts in the West were notorious for being unregulated (the term "snake oil salesman" comes from the Wild West era, referring to those who sold medicines that were often not helpful or even downright unsafe) and a barter economy thrived all the way to the end of the Indian Wars and even afterward to an extent. This was a major contributing factor to the infamous mismatch of equipment at the Battle of Little Bighorn, where the 7th Cavalry was largely armed with Trapdoor Springfield conversions that were prone to jamming (cavalry troopers often had to carry carry knives in addition to their sabers for the express purpose of extracting jammed cartridges) while large numbers of Lakota and Cheyenne had access to state-of-the-art lever actions. This reflected in the absolutely massive disparity in casualties, nearly 300 US soldiers killed to ~100 Lakota and Cheyenne dead (by comparison, even the famously well-organized Zulus still suffered disproportionate casualties at the hands of the British at the Battle of Isandlwana three years later)
